The British Empire Exhibition features in David Lean’s 1944 filmThis Happy Breed, starring Celia Johnson.

The new Stadium appears at the end of 2007 zombie horror sequel28 Weeks Later.

The 1948 Olympic Marathon and the 1923 Stadium feature in the South Korean war filmMy Way (2011), though the marathon is clearly filmed in Riga, rather than London, and the stadium standing in for Wembley has an anachronistic electronic scoreboard.

Humansaired on BBC in July 15. Episode 2, a shot of London Designer Outlet.

Silent Witness filmed with a ‘hostage scene’ taking place in Arena Square, and The SSE Arena being re-dressed as an airport baggage check-in, 2015.

24: Live Another Day, also known as Season 9 or Day 9, a limited event television series consisting of twelve episodes which aired in 2014 was shot on location in Wembley Stadium.

Absolutely Anything, the sci-fi comedy was filmed at Wembley and in Brent Town Hall in 2014.

Wembley Exhibition Hall was used in another episode ofBlake’s 7, ‘Death-Watch’, broadcast in 1980.

Sky 1’s medical dramaCritical, was shot in Brent Civic Centre.

In episode 11 of the 2^nd series of the revivedDoctor Who, the Doctor recalls visiting the 1948 London Olympics and says that he wanted to light the Olympic Flame.

A number of television shows are filmed in Fountain Studios, with some, like The X Factor, migrating to The SSE Arena for their finals. Filmed shows include The Apprentice, Britain’s Got Talent, Big Star’s Little Star, The Cube, All Star Mr & Mrs, The British Comedy Awards and The Voice: Battle Rounds.

John Betjeman is shown standing in the Stadium in his 1973 BBC filmMetroland, though, as John Bale has pointed out inAnti-Sport Sentiments in Literature: Batting for the Opposition (Routledge, 2007), he shows no real interest in Wembley’s sporting connections, either here or elsewhere.

In Nigel Kneale’s 1979Quatermass, in which ancient stone circles turn out to locations designed by aliens to harvest young humans, the Stadium is revealed to have been built on the site of a stone circle (“the Sacred Turf they call it”, says Professor Quatermass, “I wonder what’s underneath?”)

Kevin McCloud’s Supersized Salvage on Channel 4 aired in 2014 in which Kevin upcycles an Airbus A320 and turns it into a range of designed objects in a warehouse on Wembley Park.

Scenes fromThe Theory of Everything (2015)were filmed in Brent Town Hall which was transformed to look like a hospital – the council chamber was turned into a French hospital operating theatre, and the Registrars’ rooms became hospital rehabilitation rooms overlooking the gardens.