Yesterday's Witness (1969)

In the 1920s and 30s the popular music of the day was played by dance and jazz bands, the predecessors of our modern pop groups. Some of the band leaders and musicians who made the music of those days look back nostalgic-ally and wonder: Whatever happened to music?

May 4, 1970, midnight

By the time Alexandra Tolstoy was born her father had written most of his great novels. She is his last surviving child and the twelfth of his 13 children. In this film she movingly recalls the years she was Tolstoy's secretary and confidant. Life for the Tolstoy family on their country estate south of Moscow was often turbulent. Alexandra stood in the middle of the battle which developed between her parents, and tried to protect her father against the excesses of his wife's hysteria. In 1910, tired and sick, Tolstoy took the step he had contemplated for so many years - and left for the Caucasus to search for peace and solitude. He fell ill on the way and was put to bed in a station-master's cottage. Alexandra was with him during those last few days as he died.

May 11, 1970, midnight

In July 1907 a soldier took 20 boys of different social backgrounds to camp on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset. For them it was just a holiday of a special sort: for the soldier it was an important experiment. He was Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, and the boys, although they didn't realise it at the time, were prototype boy scouts. For the film, three of those boys met together for the first time since 1907 and returned to the site. The only woman Scout-master in the country recalls her days in 1908 as an unofficial girl scout'; and Olave, Lady Baden-Powell-now World Chief Guide - tells of marrying the boys' hero in 1912.

May 18, 1970, midnight

In the early 1930s an unusual situation existed in the British film industry. The talkies had just come in and there was a shortage of film stars - particularly in the shape of pretty girls who could rival the glamour girls of Hollywood. Four of the first British starlets - or ' baby stars,' as they were then called, tell how they were discovered and groomed for stardom. Gwyneth Lloyd, Diana Cotton. Dorothy Hyson, Diana Napier Tauber

May 25, 1970, midnight

On Midsummer Day 1919 one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of the sea took place in Scapa Flow, the famous anchorage in the Orkney Islands. Seventy-four ships of the German High Seas Fleet, at that time the world's second greatest navy, scuttled themselves in a calculated act of defiance. Tonight's film sees this unique event through the eyes of three people who watched it happen, and one man who actively helped it to happen

June 1, 1970, midnight

Two women in their 90s describe their life as Victorian teenagers ' We never called ourselves teenagers - but we were certainly Victorians and quite proud to be it,' says Miss Frances E. Jones who in 1892, at the age of 17, trained as one of the first lady shorthand typists, and was hired out by her office at half a crown an hour. Miss Berta Ruck, the romantic novelist, also trained in London in the 1890s. ' I was very glad I was an art student,' she says, ' for we did do things and see things and go about as well-bred, sheltered girls never did. In those days, the thing to be was decadent.... '

June 8, 1970, midnight

There was nothing particularly special about the role played at Dunkirk by Second Class Stoker Duncan Nicol. He was one man among hundreds making up the crews that manned the Little Boats. It was, in fact, the first time he had seen active warfare. A former gas engineer, he joined the Navy at its lowest engineering rank at the outbreak of war and arrived in Ramsgate, fresh from a course on the Internal Combustion Engine, to join the pleasure yacht Elizabeth Green. He had at the time only a suspicion that their destination would be Dunkirk. In this film DUNCAN NICOL tells of the two voyages to Dunkirk made by the Elizabeth Green, now a pleasure yacht again, and describes the scenes he saw during Whitsun 1940.

June 15, 1970, midnight

Exactly 30 years ago, a few weeks after Dunkirk, the German armies had reached the Normandy coast. They were only eight miles from the British Channel Island of Alderney. The population of 1,500 felt this was too close for comfort and, on 23 June 1940, evacuated to England. A week later the Germans moved in. It was nearly six years before the islanders began to return. They found their island very changed. There were vast fortifications, mass graves, the remains of slave-labour camps ... What really went on on Alderney during those war years? Different islanders have different stories, different theories ...

June 22, 1970, midnight

My Welsh nature is my best inheritance. I glory in it! I am a Welshman before everything Lloyd George grew up as a poor boy in a tiny village in North Wales. He became one of the towering figures of modern European history. He attracted more devotion and more hatred than any other politician of this century. When he died in 1945, Churchill called him 'the greatest Welshman since Owen Glendower. ' And it is as a Welshman that he is remembered in this programme. To the rest of Britain the Prime Minister and war leader of over 50 years ago may only be a history-book character, but in Wales David Lloyd George is a living legend and there are men and women who can still bring alive the unique personality of the man who was known to friend and foe as the Welsh Wizard. Narrated by HENLEY THOMAS

July 22, 1970, midnight