- It's June 1944, and four Allied soldiers are writing what may be their last words to their loved ones. They face, along with 150,000 others, the most terrifying day of their lives - the invasion to liberate Europe from Nazi rule. In these letters, read by Ben Lamb, Samuel West, Seamus Morrison and Tom Rhys Harries to m…
- Homer's tale of the great walled city of Troy was, by the 19th century, thought of as fiction. But one man, a German industrialist, followed the clues in Homer's work and uncovered the ruins of Troy and Mycenae, complete wutg fabulous treasures. A generation later, an Englishman makes a spectacular discovery of the anc…
- John Macfadyen (The Stripes in the Tartan) (1970, 4 mins)Painted directly onto film with a march tune entitled John Macfadyen.Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films including one feature, Blue Black Permanent (1992) and pub…
- n 1992 a group of labour activists, Paul, Maggie and Irène, are dismayed by yet another Labour defeat to a Conservative Government. They each wish to support Labour in different ways. Irène works for the BBC, Paul applies for a job in the …