Health minister Enoch Powell shown walking down a street. Nearby, demonstrating nurses unhappy with their pay hold up various placards. Powell seen talking to a nursing sister.

Enoch Powell tours a new teaching hospital in Sheffield.

R A Butler, Quentin Hogg (later Lord Hailsham) and Reginal Maudling shown departing a cabinet meeting held at No 10 Downing Street. Earlier that day the three are seen arriving in addition to cabinet members Alec Douglas-Home, Enoch Powell, Christopher Soames and Keith Joseph.

The candidates for leadership launch their campaigns after Sir Alec Douglas Home resigns. Reginald Maudling’s wife and children pack an overfull suitcase at home and Maudling gives an interview. Edward Heath mixes with his local congregation after church and shares a seaside picnic with friends. Enoch Powell poses outside his house with his wife and William Whitelaw poses with sheep on a farm. ? is seen feeding two horses and Edward Du Cann is seen laughing batting at a cricket match. Enoch Powell stands patiently for a photocall in the rain.

Candidates for Tory Party leadership in 1965. Edward Heath being pursued by journalists into car and teased about not putting on his seat belt. Reginald Maudling posing at front door with wife and children; Sir Alec Douglas-Home at home with his wife arranging flowers; Enoch Powell refusing to comment at the train station and Richard Crossman unveiling a plaque with Powell. Bookies’ odds for leadership race and interior shot of the stock exchange.

Enoch Powell attends gymkhana and gives interview justifying his speech on immigration as in line with Conservative ideology and sanctioned by Edward Heath. Voxpops highlight people’s reaction to controversial speech.

Workers demonstrate their support for Enoch Powell after his speech and present petitions to Parliament. Interview with spokesman for Smithfields market workers. Powell receives thousands of letters in response to speech. Interview with Quentin Hogg MP who criticises Powell and his words as imprudent, inflammatory and disloyal to the party.

Short excerpt from Enoch Powell’s highly controversial “river of blood” speech on immigration into Great Britain.

Enoch Powell visits Birmingham university, received by a mainly supportive crowd. Hostile students surround his car as he leaves and interview with a professor who describes Powell as a ‘political animal’.

Enoch Powell gives a speech at the university of Exeter to a mostly hostile audience, which ends amid fighting between protestors and supporters.

Police escort petitioners to Enoch Powells’s house amid chants that include ‘Enoch in the Dock’, ‘We want you’ and ‘Zieg Heil’. Powell accepts the petition and listens to accusations that the policies he advocates are more in keeping with Nazi Germany.

National Front members march to Enoch Powell’s home to show support. Powell opens front door to a group from Slough armed with a petition claiming 88% of Slough residents back Powell’s policies on immigration. Chants include ‘2-4-6-8 we don’t want to integrate’.

Enoch Powell canvasses support during the General Election campaign in Wolverhampton. Interviews with the Liberal and Labour candidates and images of canvassing by the Independent and Communist candidates. Interview given by a member of the Asian community. Images of marketplace and locals and an anti-Powell street demonstration.

Prior to an election address by Enoch Powell an ‘anarchist’ is removed from the venue. Powell argues that his earlier concerns over immigration were justified.

Enoch Powell races a donkey cart at a gymkhana. An anti-Powell demonstration in Southampton area, banners reading “No Wight racism”. Long excerpt from speech referring to moral disintegration of the nation and fears over future civil strife.

Enoch Powell criticises the government’s price and pay code and the prime minister.

Enoch Powell out and about in his constituency in South Down, Ulster. Powell states he will tow the Unionist line in the aftermath of the Anglo-Irish agreement. Local opponent Edward McGrady of the SDLP gives his opinion on Powell as an MP followed by constituent voxpops.

Enoch Powell’s funeral takes place at Westminster Abbey attended by many, including Conservative and Unionist politicians and former rivals. Shot of Powell giving ‘rivers of blood’ speech in Birmingham