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A group of amateur drivers from all over the world compete in an illegal night-time street race.

In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics, and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.

The life of Neil Baldwin, a man who has shrugged off his perceived limitations to live an incredible life.

Based on a true story in 1985. Derek is a dreamer and a loser. No matter how hard he tries he fails at everything he attempts. Determined to show the world he can succeed at something he forms an American Football team in a country dominated by Football, Rugby, Cricket and Fish & Chips. His desire to succeed consumes his life and he is blind to see that his success will lead to him losing everything.

Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.

A boy and his sister and brother pilot a canal narrow boat from north-east Wales to London. With a girl they meet on the way, they learn about the history of British canals and of the people who live and work on the waterways today.

For Love's Sake is a faith-based drama based on a true story. After the tragic death of her husband, Mary Walker falls into a spiral of suicidal depression and subsequently loses custody of her two boys. Through the intervention of her church community and a caring therapist, Mary regains her faith, experiences emotional healing, and finds the strength to fight a skeptical bureaucracy for custody of her children.

The Limelight is a dilapidated nightclub on its final hours - about to close its doors for the last time. It is dark, crumbling and cheap. In one last attempt to revitalise its fortunes, the owners decide to host an under eighteens battle of the bands.

A group of enterprising students strives against the odds to achieve their dream of acting on the big stage. The youngsters decide to stage Shakespeare's Macbeth at Crewe's Lyceum Theatre, and they recruit Eric Shepard, a once-feared and respected theatre director, whose own career has been cut short by injury. The film, like the play they eventually put on, is a triumph of perseverance and self-belief.

Celebrating British railways' change of technology to bring in the technology of commuter travel.

After his girlfriend leaves him, Martyn hides his disturbing slide to to the edge of insanity behind a mask of repressed normality. Martyn is an everyday man of the suburbs. In fact, he's just like you.

A documentary celebrating Britain's obsession with railways.

Victoria Wood travels by train through Northern England and Scotland.

The Most Haunted team head into Cheshire to visit the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, which was built on top of a graveyard. A dancing woman in a white dress is among the ghosts reportedly seen here.