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Dudley Zoo is famous, not just for its animals and its Norman Castle, but for its modernist buildings as well. This short film looks at the famous Tecton buildings designed by Berthold Lubetkin. www.john-price.me.uk

A tribute to Wilton’s Music Hall, the world's oldest surviving Grand Music Hall and to Champagne Charlie (George Laybourne, 1842 - 1884) who performed there. The song, Champagne Charlie, performed by Derek B. Scott, Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds, to his own piano accompaniment c. 1985. These are the original lyrics and are different to the version of the song included in...

The Fugitive King in the South West

A wonderful radio history of the first hundred years of the Ashes cricket series between England and Australia; written and narrated by the great John Arlott in 1977 and featuring original commentary on many great moments. There are also archival extracts from interviews with C.B. Fry, Ray Robinson, Bill Bowes, Frank Woolley, Don Bradman, Len Hutton, Harold Larwood, Clarrie Grimmett, Dennis Lil...

When the BBC began broadcasting the 40 over John Player League in 1969 they filled the tea interval with readings by members of the Lord's Taverners from classic cricket literature. In 1970, a LP of the best of these readings was released and that has been uploaded here. The recording quality is very poor, but the content is excellent. Contents: 1. 0:00 Poem: Cricket at Worcester: 1938 by John ...

MEMORIAL DAY FOR WINNIE AND GERALD PRICE

A video about the French Pilgrimage town. Believed to be made in the 1980s.

Christmas Carols from The Birmingham Oratory - The Choir of St Philips Grammar School conducted by John Nicholas Organist Roger Hill 1. Marin Responsory 2. Once in Royal David’s city 3. The Lord at First did Adam Make 4. Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary 5. Adam lay y bounden 6. A Babe is Born, I wys 7. The Cherry Carol Tree 8. While Shepherds Watched 9. It came upon the Midnight Clear 10. Ding Dong, M...

Archie Hill was a writer, broadcaster and photographer who came from the English Black Country, a region which provided the central theme for his work. His writing included acclaimed autobiographical books as well novels, radio plays, television scripts and journalism. The pinnacle of his broadcasting career was a four-part 1974 BBC TV series called Archie Hill Comes Home. He was described by w...

The Somerset village of East Coker has immense connections with the great poet, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965) ; his ancestors came from here before emigrating to the USA, it is in the village church that his ashes are interred and the second poem of his monumental 1940 sequence, Four Quartets, is named East Coker. The famous first line ‘In my beginning is my end’, refers to his family hist...

A film made in the early 1970's about a group holiday organised by Noah's Ark Children's Venture, a registered charity which offer high quality, low cost, short-stay residential breaks to groups working with children, young people and adults from the inner cities and elsewhere. To do so they provide well-equipped, low cost residential accommodation in peaceful and secure surroundings. The chari...

The visit of HRH The Princess Royal to Somerset Court, a residential community for autistic people in Brent Knoll, Somerset. 3 February 1989

A Panorama report from 1974 consisting of a report by Denis Tuohy about about autism and provision for autistic children and adolescents. It features the National Autistic Society's first school as well as their first residential care unit for autistic adolescents and adults - Somerset Court. It includes interviews with John Hill, Dr Lorna Wing, Wendy Landman and Sybil Elgar.