Ever since Captain Cook saw it loom out of the mist, Antarctica has captured the imaginations of explorers, writers, scientists and artists - whether they have visited the great southern continent or not.
Writer Francis Spufford explains how Antarctica has acted as a vast blank canvas for science fiction authors to unload their most outlandish imaginings.
Writer and Broadcaster Matthew Sweet talks about ‘the event’ of going to see a Hollywood Epic in the 1950s. It wasn’t always the standard cinema trip after all.
With the release of The Robe in 1953, cinema audiences had got a taste of CinemaScope, a new way of Widescreen Cinema established by Hollywood Studio 20th Century Fox. Seeing this new type of Cinema format available, other Hollywood Studios took on the challenge to introduce their very own Widescreen Formats.
Film Archivist Tom Vincent explains what happened next with the release of CinemaScope and what kind of different formats the other Hollywood Studios introduced.
David Cooke (director of the BBFC) talks about how important the BBFC and classification is when it comes to the future of mass media including online.
Nigel Walmsley gets a letter inviting him to give an after dinner talk on the picture postcard. Has the Rowland Hill Retired Men's Club made a dreadful mistake?