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- Drawing on details from the diaries of his life-long manager, this documentary features previously unheard audio and unseen archive footage from Cooper's personal and professional life, including material never performed before.
- TV presenter Dallas Campbell, engineer Professor Danielle George and engineer Dr Hugh Hunt re-create the opening of the BBC's television service on 2 November 1936. This involves building the mechanical flying-spot cameras that were used by Baird's system.
- Beginning in Canterbury in Kent, Michael treads the boards as he uncovers the political message behind a play, published in 1936, inspired by the 12th-century murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket.
- Alan Yentob visits Alexander Palace and looks back at it's first high-definition television broadcast in 1936.