Stephen Potter

In the hope of winning the woman of his dreams, Amanda, lovelorn meter-reader Roger Wadell enrolls in a secret confidence-building class. The course's title takes on much more meaning when he discovers that his egomaniacal professor Dr. P also wants the same woman. They begin a fierce rivalry that quickly spirals out of control, their pranks and insults get uglier as they try to prove who is the ultimate guy's guy.

A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined by Peter Jones as the snooty Gatling-Fenn and Frederick Jaeger, complete with monocle, playing Cogg-Willoughby. "The world is divided into two types of people," Potter says, "winners and losers, the one-up and the one-down. He who is not one-up is surely one-down".

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

A documentary about grassroots racing and what it takes to keep it alive. The film follows Robert Snyder, a short track promoter fighting to keep his track open, along with drivers Ryan and Austin Pannone and Tyler Gallup as they race through a season at Orange Show Speedway, one of the last remaining short tracks on the West Coast. Through their experiences, the film shows the realities of short track racing, the cost, the risk, the long nights, and the community that surrounds the track. As more local tracks close, Short Track examines what these places mean to the people who race there and what could be lost if they disappear.