Plenty of musicians improvise, but few do it quite like Trimpin. Midway through Peter Esmond's documentary Trimpin: The Sound Of Ivention, the German-born engineer and composer is in his workshop, cleaning a glass tube for use in a gallery installation. As he polishes the tube with a cloth, it suddenly emits a high-pit…

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

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In the 1890s Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. Later on she wonders if Sid wasn't better after all and seeks to find out.