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Episode 2—Going to the Flicks

2/2 Charting the rise from the 1970s low ebb in cinema-going to today's exciting innovations.

1/2 Barry Norman on the changing experience of British cinema going over the last century.

Colin Shindler looks back at what's been won and lost when sport hits the big screen.

An acoustic journey by train across Mexico recreated with archive recordings.

In anticipation of his own Hamlet in 2011, Michael Sheen explores every actor's dream role

Iain Sinclair finds out why the weather forecast has always been a national obsession.

An appraisal of Barbara Castle in the centenary of her birth

Glenn Mitchell examines rare recordings that reveal the lighter side of Peter Sellers.

Julian Jackson on the inscrutable General de Gaulle and his fraught relations with Britain

An exploration of JB Priestley's hugely popular Second World War radio broadcasts.