Is there a place for the travelling fun fair any more? Static attractions like Alton Towers and Thorpe Park have rides that are bigger, grander, more varied and scarier than anything a traditional, ...

Aided by zesty interviews with Christopher Lee, Tim Pigott-Smith, PD James and more, and pinned together by an outrageously fruity narration from Peter Wyngarde, what the film emphasised above all was ...

Here's a lovely old granny in a pale-blue coat with her silver hair all curled and set. And here's that lovely old granny spitting nastiness about another woman. "She's a dirty great fat lump of lard, ...

Blue movie: still from John Noel's restored 'The Epic of Everest' It is no exaggeration to say that Noel was the progenitor of Himalayan exploration. In 1913 he blackened his face with boot polish, ...

Today, more Brits play bingo than attend football matches and church. Almost a quarter of the population played bingo in 1966. In 2006, bingo halls attracted 78 million people through their doors.

The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley: Michael Winner-approved sauce from postcard artist Donald McGill But postcards are different. As the fictitious and largely unseen Bristolian Nigel ...

All the Fun of the Fair traced the history of the travelling fair in its familiar form. What we now recognise as the fair, with rides, sideshows and snacks evolved in the 19th century. The programme ...

Frank Hurley hurled himself into a freezing flooded cabin to retrieve now iconic photographic plates from Shackleton’s sinking ship Endurance. And then there is Captain John Noel. It is no ...