Women and Leisure

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

Women cyclists go for gold! Singer Gracie Fields presents the grand prize at South London's premier women's cycling event.

They breed them hard in Dudley - running non-stop for 24 hours is nothing to Ron Bentley: his next challenge is to race over 800 miles.

Want to learn to dance the Swedish Masquerade, Dutch Hakke Toone, or maybe the Italian Tarantella? Essex schoolchildren show us how it’s done.

Meet the president leading the haggis hurling revival and learn how delivering lunch became a sport for kilted gentlemen.

Rare home movie capturing sporting action in 1967 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics.

There is never a dull moment in this International Spy Game of foreign spies competing to trick their way into sixteen different embassies.

As the craze for playing cowboys and Indians ebbs, Waddingtons introduce a game for boys to re-enact the famous Sioux and Cheyenne victory.

With the subatomic world getting ever smaller, Waddingtons recognised that a microscope was just what was needed “for the man of the future.”

Headlining with the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics in 1970, the Yorkshire Post sells itself as much more than a local paper.

Tuning into the biggest consumer market for television advertising in Britain with Trident TV.

Butter, eggs, and lemons, what else could better evoke the healthiness of the countryside than this delicious traditional desert topping?

Compelling travel feature edited from footage of the 1925-26 Worsley Algarsson Arctic expedition.

In this illustrated discussion, BFI programmer-at-large Geoff Andrew and Catherine Wheatley, the author of two books on Michael Haneke’s work, examine what makes him such a distinctive, important and often controversial cinematic artist.

Film critic Carmen Gray and film writer Ela Bittencourt discuss three films by trailblazing Czech filmmaker Věra Chytilová.

In this discussion, BFI programmer-at-large Geoff Andrew and Sue Harris, Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, will focus on three titles to look at what made Malle such a rewarding filmmaker.

BFI National Archive curator Will Massa and film critic Beatrice Loayza explore the work of contemporary British filmmaker Joanna Hogg.

Writer and activist So Mayer joins filmmaker and critic Alexandra Hidalgo to discuss the work of acclaimed French director and artist Agnès Varda.