Leslie Baily visits a modern nylon stocking factory at Sutton in Ashfield and meets H. Hibbert, Jack Hepworth, Horace Parnell, and Iris Derbyshire, and calls up from the past the Rev. William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame, and his wife: some Luddite rioters: and Lord Byron speaking in the House of Lords
Parts played by: Peter Hoar, Betty Hardy, Peter Ducrow, Stanley Mackenzie, Charles Mason with a postscript by John Traynor, a National Trust agent in Sherwood Forest
Produced by Jack Singleton