While the Americans were trying to reach the moon the economically and politically suffering British had found a new sort of hero, long distance yachters. The Sunday Times put up a prize for the person who could make the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat thought beyond the endurance of man or machine and so it proved for all but one of the Kiplingesque adventurers who stepped into the breech. This remarkable documentary, from the team that brought us Touching The Voi find out more...

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is possibly the greatest, and definitely the most historic, motorcycle road race in the world, the ultimate challenge for a rider, and to the observer a terrifying, but ghoulishly hypnotic dice with death. find out more...