Yesterday's Witness (1969)

During the summer months in the years before the last war, the daughters of the very best families were driven to Buckingham Palace to be presented at Court. This presentation was the climax of a very special summer for these girls. They were debutantes, making their debut into fashionable society. It was all called 'Coming Out.' And after 1939 mothers never again presented their daughters at Court in the evening. Catherine Ormsby-Gore, Dinah Brand and Christian Grant were all driven to Buckingham Palace to be presented that summer before the war. And they remember the fun and formality of a first London Season.

July 6, 1975, midnight

X-Rays were discovered quite by chance in Germany in 1895. In Britain the news of these new rays that could see right through you was greeted with a mixture of fun and fear. But while enterprising manufacturers advertised special X-Ray-proof clothing for the public, a handful of enthusiasts grasped the medical value of the discovery and founded the earliest hospital X-Ray departments. What none of these pioneers could know were the terrible dangers to the body of accumulated radiation. Four radiographers, who survived those early days, recall what it was like to be amongst the first 'X-Ray men.'

July 13, 1975, midnight

On Thursday, 31 July 1919, nearly one half of the Liverpool Police Force - the Merseyside 'Scuffers' - went on strike. For two nights over the August Bank Holiday, Liverpool City Centre was virtually without a police force. The mob left the slums and set out on a looting spree. The Riot Act was read, the army sent for and a battleship and two destroyers despatched to the Mersey. Liverpool men and women, who were children in 1919, still remember that weekend, and some of the police strikers recall the strike - and after.

July 27, 1975, midnight