
Timeshift
Date de parution : 1 octobre 2002
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | The Grunwick Strike Time Shift recalls the bitterly fought dispute at a north London film-processing business in 1976, which had profound repercussions for the... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | The Cannabis Years An in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years. |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | The Writer's Trade Examining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years. | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | The Sailing Sixties In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revolution that was kick-started by... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Attenborough: The Controller Years Charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock full of interviews, clips and... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | The Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man Time Shift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Monty Python team.... | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | A Shadow Over Europe In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, as the Czech Republic heads for... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Whatever Happened to the Working Class? This programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class. | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Notting Hill Riots Examining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain and inspired the annual carnival. |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | What Have the Germans Done for Us? From VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life. | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Greenham Common Changed My Life The story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought them to Greenham, their protests, conflicts with... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Car Crazy The story of the British love of the motor car from the earliest days of mass production in the 1920s to today's MPVs and post-modern Minis told... | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | The Magic Roundabout Story Created by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like Dougal. It transformed the careers of actor Eric... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniune originals? Interviewees... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Gurus Time Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British society. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | The British Seaside Jonathan Meades, Martin Parr and Bill Pertwee contribute to Time Shift's celebration of British seaside holidays. | |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Children's News Time Shift explores the significance of children's programmes in developing young people's worldview. With Jon Snow and John Craven. |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Watching You Undercover reporter Donal Macintyre is among the interviewees as Time Shift looks at hidden-camera TV. Nigel Kneale discusses how his satire The... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | TV and Charity Terry Wogan, Lenny Henry, Michael Buerk and Esther Rantzen guest on Time Shift's look at how charity and TV are interwoven - from the early days of... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Tyneside Time Shift celebrates Tyneside's cultural contribution and its development through the eyes of writers, actors and others. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Political Thrillers: Plays of State From banned 1950s drama Party Manners to House of Cards and State of Play, the secrets of TV thrillers are uncovered in an edition of the Time Shift... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | High Rise Dreams Time Shift looks back at how a group of idealistic architects changed the face of council housing in Britain, inspired by the modernist philosophy... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Vicars: Dearly Beloved? Time Shift looks at the changing role of the Church of England parish priest over the last 40 years. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Footballers’ Lives In the last 40 years, money and fame have transformed footballers from working class heroes to multimedia icons. Time Shift explores how this change... | |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Six Days to Saturday John Boorman-directed documentary from 1963, recounting a week in the life of the players and manager of Swindon Town football club, a fascinating... |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | The Kneale Tapes - DUPLICATE Time Shift celebrates the career of pioneering TV writer Nigel Kneale, whose Quatermass serials terrified audiences in the 1950s, and whose later... | |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Hard Drive Heaven - DUPLICATE The unstoppable rise of the home computer, from the early days when PCs were the size of a room, to their current micro-accessibility. Today the... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Cold War Kids Paul Morley and Michael Rosen are among those discussing the changing experiences of children who grew up in the shadow of the Cold War. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | The Kneale Tapes Time Shift profiles Nigel Kneale, the brains behind such disconcerting chillers as The Stone Tapes and The Ouatermass Experiment. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck Time Shift profiles the journalist, a conflict-battered idealist who feared for the worst and campaigned for the best. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Apocalypse Now… and Then Time Shift examins mankind's obsession with the end of the world, looking at how science and religion fuel the belief that armageddon is just around... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | The Lie of the Land The conventional view of the country-side is of a rural idyll perpetuated by our cultural tradition - but does this idyll really exist? Time Shift... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Child Prodigies Time Shift looks at how precocious children challenge thinking about education - and whether labelling a child as "gifted" does more harm than good. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors saved the NHS The story of the generation of doctors who came from the Indian subcontinent to become the hidden heroes who have provided the backbone of the NHS... | |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 8 | The Jet Set Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorways before winging their way across the skies... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Missing Believed Wiped The story of Britain's lost generation of TV entertainment, from the golden age of light entertainment in the 1950s, via the "sacrilegious" tape... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Prog Rock A look back to the years when progressive rock ruled the universe, with bands such as Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson filling stadia... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 11 | Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer The PC has shrunk in size, but grown in power - Time Shift charts its evolution. Contributors include Sir Clive Sinclair. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 12 | Whistleblowers Until the 1980s Whitehall was able to use the Official Secrets Act to suppress information it didn't want disclosed. Time Shift recalls those who... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 13 | Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame A look at the decisive moments of the latter 20th century through the eyes of the late Charles Wheeler. One of journalism's most dedicated yet... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Art School A look at the history of Britain's art schools, the most exciting educational establishments in Britain for two decades. The engines of the 1960s... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Fantasy Sixties | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Rosenthal Time Shift profiles the late Jack Rosenthal from humble beginnings to his success as writer of such dramas as The Evacuees and Cold Enough for Snow. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 4 | The Carnival Years Notting Hill Carnival is Britain's biggest street party and a celebration of London's cultural melting pot. But, as Time Shift reports, its success... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 5 | The History of Pubs Time Shift examines the very special place occupied by the pub in British society. Arthur Smith narrates, with contributions from Jeremy Hardy ,... | |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Live on the Night In the days before editing ensured slick production values and blemish-free performances, TV drama was a live medium. Bill Nighy narrates a Time... |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 7 | New Age Travellers Soap-dodging scroungers or free-thinking champions of an alternative lifestyle? Time Shift examines the origins of those regarded by many as social... |
| Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Drugs in Sport Time Shift tells the stories of athletes ruined by drugs - or allegations of them. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 9 | Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey Pete Tong and Ranking Miss P contribute to Time Shift's look at the evolution of the DJ from pirate radio outlaw to modern superstar. | |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 10 | British Space Race Britain was, briefly, the unlikely player in the field of rocket research. Time Shift tells the story of unsung pioneers of space exploration: the... |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 11 | Pile It High, Sell It Cheap Time Shift charts the spectacular growth of the supermarket over the past 50 years, examining how it has influenced British society. |
| Saison 4 - épisode 12 | Red Robbo Time Shift traces the rise and fall of British Leyland shop steward Derek Robinson. In the mid 70s, he wielded immense power over management at the... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Gambling Britain The National Lottery's launch in 1994 confirmed Britain as a nation of gamblers - yet just over 40 years ago, betting shops and casinos were illegal.... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 14 | The Story of Circus Time Shift explores how television's early days exploited the spectacle of the circus. Including the first live outside broadcast from Calais where... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 15 | Pop Svengalis Time Shift celebrates the dynamos behind great British bands from the 1950s to today. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 16 | Conchies: Questions of Conscience Time Shift looks at conscientious objectors from the first World War to today; those who refused to serve for religious, moral or political reasons. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 17 | Kenneth Tynan The rise and fall of the theatre critic - who brought swearing to the BBC and nudity to the West End - is traced by Time Shift. Presented by New... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 18 | Jewish Entertainers Jewish entertainers have dominated parts of the industry in the UK and US for decades, Time Shift investigates why American Jews celebrate their... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 19 | Alan Plater: Hearing the Music Writers Alan Bleasdale and Lee Billy Elliot Hall discuss the work of the writer for Time Shift. With critics Chris Dunkley and Dave Gelly, and... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 20 | Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban When Margaret Thatcher 's government starved Sinn Fein of the "oxygen of publicity", it was the most direct level of censorship since 1945. Time... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 21 | Russel T. Davis: Unscripted Doctor Who and Casanova have both benefited from the writing of Russell T Davies. Time Shift examines his work from children's TV to Queer as Folk... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | MPs on the Box Time Shift looks at how satirists have portrayed politicians in such television creations as Yes Minister Spitting Image and The New Statesman. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Je T’Aime… How We Learned to Love Europe Sixty years ago, postwar Europe was seen as a dirty, chaotic place where you couldn't drink the water. Now Brits dream of restoring crumbling... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | England Away Time Shift examines the history of English football fans travelling to Europe, and the attendant sub-culture of drinking and violence. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Court on Camera A member of OJ Simpson's "dream team", plus the lawyer who defended nanny Louise Woodward , are among contributors to Time Shift's history of the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Apes in Hollywood Since King Kong broke box office records, apes have been big business. Time Shift takes a wry look at a neglected genre, from Tarzan and Planet of... | |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Star Men Adam Hart-Davis explores the world of Britain's 40,000 amateur astronomers. While the last century saw amateurs eclipsed by high technology,... |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 7 | Black and White Minstrels Revisited Time Shift takes a look at the now notorious show, whose blacked-up singing and dancing routines ruled the weekend schedules for 21 years. |
| Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Too Much, Too Young Time Shift charts the devastating effect on children - some as young as five - who care for infirm parents | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 9 | The Jitterbug Years Documentary recalling the social revolution which swept across Britain from 1946. A new dance craze, the Jitterbug, captured the mood of the country... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Play It Again Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name's the Same and Ask Your Dad make their debuts during the years 1945-55.... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 11 | The Battle for the Ashes The changing sporting fortunes of England and Australia as recounted in this Time Shift documentary. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 12 | The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government inspired them to suppress photographs of the 1950... | |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 13 | The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain Francine Stock narrates the story of the Third Programme, a high-culture radio show launched in 1946, focusing on how the series influenced the... |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 14 | Lost Road: Overland To Singapore In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded by six Oxbridge undergraduates to give some money & filmstock so they... |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 15 | A Study in Sherlock Documentary explores the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes through his various screen incarnations, from early silent films through the classic... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 16 | Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes Time Shift presents clips of the strangest Sherlocks, with pastiche and parody from Roland Rat to John Cleese. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 17 | Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now Robert Lindsay and Miranda Richardson guest in Time Shift's profile of the TV dramatist. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 18 | The British Way of Death Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has acquired a new spirit of informality. Today's departed are just as... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 19 | Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama Jimmy McGovern and Ken Loach are among those reflecting on left-wing drama of the 1960s and 70s, looking at works as diverse as Take Me Home and Our... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 20 | Rude Britannia From Pygmalion to Paxman, Time Shift traces the cult of plain-speaking. Narrated by Tamsin Greig. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 21 | The Sun and the Moon A quirky Time Shift compilation of TV appearances by these two heavenly bodies, including Patrick Moore 's meeting with a vicar who refuses to... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 22 | Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films Marking 60 years of the Central Office of Information, Time Shift celebrates PIFs, from HIV awareness to "Charley Says". | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 23 | Pop Svengalis - DUPLICATE A look at the Svengali-like managers that have been behind some of Britian's great pop acts, and how they came to dominate the music business. Are... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Switch Off Something Welcome to 1973 - the year that saw the three-day week and the arrival of a fictional character from 2006 in the BBC1 drama Life on Mars. The... | |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Creating Life on Mars In conversation with writer and broadcaster Andrew Collins, the creators of the time-travel cop show Life on Mars reveal the story behind the... |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold An exploration of how Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code was able to influence popular culture and challenge the traditional view of Christianity,... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Carry On Campus Over the past sixty years, a university education has gone from being the preserve of the privileged few to an expected rite of passage for more... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Machine Men Daisy Donovan narrates a documentary looking at the rollercoaster fortunes of robots, androids and cyborgs in fact and fantasy, from the Flash... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Oz and Them Looking at how the relationship between Australia and the UK has changed since the Queen's trip Down Under in 1954. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction Bill Nighy narrates a documentary telling the story of the long and often extraordinary relationship between fact and fiction in the mysterious... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Planet Ping Pong Time Shift enters the world of table tennis and traces how an English parlour game once known as ‘whiff-whaff’ became the most popular sport in... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide Playful viewer's guide to entering another dimension, narrated by Richard Ayoade, featuring some of TV and cinema's best-known alternate universes,... | |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 10 | Transylvania Babylon A comic exploration of the cult of Dracula. From Bela Lugosi to bloodsucking bikes, with a Mexican tag-wrestling version thrown in for good measure,... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 11 | The New Middle Classes Time Shift presents a humorous look at Britain's cultural landscape, comparing the way that the traditional middle class places more emphasis on... | |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 12 | Rover: The Long Goodbye This documentary traces the rise and fall of a great British brand. In the days when Britain's car industry was the envy of the world, Rover... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 13 | First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom Timeshift looks at how the reduced influence of religion for children today means that milestones in their lives are rapidly changing from the... | |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 14 | Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health Documentary, narrated by Caroline Quentin, looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the UK. It asks if... |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 15 | Goodbye Children Everywhere Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 16 | Live on the Night - DUPLICATE Bill Nighy recalls the early days of television drama, when programmes were not recorded and cast and crew had to get it right on the night.... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 17 | Hey Mr DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey - DUPLICATE David Hepworth chronicles the history of the disc jockey. The DJ has often been a neglected profession but today's globe-trotting jocks enjoy... | |
![]() | Saison 6 - épisode 18 | The British Space Race DUPLICATE The space race has been traditionally linked with America and Russia, battling it out to be the first into outer and space and then the Moon. But,... |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 1 | The Edwardian Larder Documentary about the first mass-produced food brands focusing on Perrier water, Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Typhoo tea and Marmite. The tea-tasters of... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | How To Be a Good Prime Minister Political commentator Andrew Marr assesses what it takes to be a successful British premier based on the performance of the twenty prime ministers... | |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Radio hits from Hancock's Half-Hour to Little Britain have... |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Whatever Happened to Radio 2? Radio 2 was created out of the old Light Programme, but the modern station, with its targeted playlists and big-name DJs like Jonathan Ross and... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country Live performance in which Emmylou Harris presents her ten rules of what makes a great country song, personally chosen from her own extensive... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Emmylou Harris at the BBC BBC collection of performances which traces Emmylou Harris's musical development from her first British TV appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test... | |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Archaeology: Digging the Past An exploration of the way archaeology has been presented on television over the past 50 years, from panel show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, which... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Sir Mortimer Wheeler: A Life in Ruins Profile of Mortimer Wheeler, who became the public face of archaelogy for almost 40 years. With the arrival of television in the 1950s, the... | |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 9 | Watching the Russians Beginning with the rise of Russophobia in Victorian Britain, former MI5 director general Stella Rimington explores our love-hate relationship with... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 10 | Never Had It So Good? Writer Colin Shindler returns to Manchester to revisit his childhood and tell his own intensely personal, boys own story of a paradoxical year,... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 11 | A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 John Inverdale hosts a unique experiment, using the latest football technology, to find out how English football has really changed in the past... | |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 12 | Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub The pub is a British institution. In fact a good 'local' is as important to some as a post office, supermarket or place of worship. The image of a... |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 13 | The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man Cultural commentator Peter York takes a look at the changing fortunes of British advertising, through the story of the personalities who led it... |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 14 | Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner Documentary looking at the history and tradition of the British Christmas dinner and the role it still plays. With contributions from actor Simon... |
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| Saison 7 - épisode 16 | Xmas Turkey on the Telly The Time Shift strand continues with Christmas cooking catastrophes from the archives | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame When veteran journalist Charles Wheeler died aged 85, he was just one year younger than the BBC itself. As the corporation's longest-serving foreign... | |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 2 | How To Be A Good President In a whistle-stop tour through the history of the US presidency, journalist and author Jonathan Freedland asks what qualities make a great president... |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Between the Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Age of Steam Documentary which tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why it quickly came... |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 5 | How to Write a Mills and Boon To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them. |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 6 | How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword A look at the world of cryptic crosswords, offering up the secrets of these seemingly impenetrable puzzles. |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 7 | The Comic Songbook Documentary which celebrates Britain's rich and much-loved tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's... |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 8 | Fashion versus the BBC Documentary which takes a provocative and entertaining journey through the BBC's own fashion collection. |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 9 | The North-South Divide Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality and if anything can be done to... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science Documentary which explores the history of British food science, taking a fascinating voyage through over a century of petri-dishes, vitamins and... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 2 | The Golden Age of Liners Paul Atterbury embarks on an alluring journey into the golden age of ocean liners, finding out how these great ships made such a mark on the popular... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 3 | The Men Who Built the Liners Many of the most famous passenger liners in history were built in the British Isles, several in the shipyards along the banks of the Clyde. This... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 4 | The Last Days of the Liners Documentary which tells the story of how, in the years following World War 2, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships on... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 5 | How to Win at Chess Many people know the basic rules of chess, but few can play really well. This programme offers some essential tips on how to raise our game. British... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a man whose name was Oliver Postgate. He had a shed where he made things. With his friend Peter Firmin,... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 7 | Clement Freud: In His Own Words When Clement Freud died in April 2009, Britain lost not only one of its best-loved broadcasters but also one of its last great polymaths - a man... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 8 | Bread: A Loaf Affair The aptly-named Tom Baker narrates a tale of aspiration, industrialisation and plain old-fashioned snobbery in a documentary which unwraps the story... |
![]() | Saison 9 - épisode 9 | Disappearing Dad Novelist Andrew Martin investigates the curious case of absent fathers in fiction. Far from being a repository of fatherly role models, English... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 1 | The North on a Plate Paris-based cultural historian Andrew Hussey follows his success with France on a Plate by travelling back to his homeland, the north west of... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 2 | 1960: The Year of the North This programme sets out to show that the 60s - the most creative decade of the 20th century - began not in swinging London but in smokestack... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 3 | When Britain Went Wild Documentary which explores the untold story of how Britain 'went wild' in the 1960s. It shows how the British people fell in love with animals and... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 4 | Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction Draw the curtains and dim the lights for a chilling trip north for a documentary which investigates the success of Scandinavian crime fiction and... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 5 | Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction Documentary which profiles a new wave of Italian crime fiction that has emerged to challenge the conventions of the detective novel. There are no... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 6 | The Golden Age of Coach Travel Documentary which takes a glorious journey back to the 1950s, when the coach was king. From its early origins in the charabanc, the coach had always... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 7 | The Modern Age Of The Coach Documentary which brings the story of the coach up to date, as it explores the most recent phase of Britain's love affair with group travel on four... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 8 | The Story of Corporal Punishment Timeshift lifts the veil on the taboo that is corporal punishment. What it reveals is a fascinating history spanning religion, the justice system,... |
![]() | Saison 10 - épisode 9 | The Story of Capital Punishment Time Shift digs into the archive to trace the extraordinary story of the ultimate sanction. At the beginning of the 19th century you could still be... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 1 | Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice It is almost exactly 30 years since the BBC's Rough Justice team began investigating miscarriages of justice. The programme can claim to have... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 2 | Hotel Deluxe Timeshift invites you to make a reservation in the world of hotels for the super rich. The Savoy, the Ritz, the Dorchester - the very names of... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 3 | All the Fun of the Fair Timeshift explores rarely-seen images from the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive to ride back to the origins of the fairground.... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 4 | When the Circus Comes to Town Roll up! Roll up! Join Timeshift under the big top for unique access to the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive which tells the... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 5 | The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley The surprising story behind the humble picture postcard, playfully told by comic creation Nigel Walmsley. With their own language and bespoke rules,... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 6 | Dear Censor Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification.... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 7 | Of Ice and Men Time Shift reveals the history of the frozen continent, finding out why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold... | |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 8 | The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire Move along the car! Timeshift takes a nostalgic trip on the tram car and explores how it liberated overcrowded cities and launched the age of... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 9 | Epic: A Cast of Thousands! Timeshift reveals the ten commandments of big cinema as it goes behind the scenes of the biggest film genre of them all - the epic. See the biggest... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 10 | The Smoking Years Timeshift reveals the story of the creature that is 'the smoker'. How did this species arrive on our shores? Why did it become so sexy - and so... |
![]() | Saison 11 - épisode 11 | The Rules of Drinking Timeshift digs into the archive to discover the unwritten rules that have governed the way we drink in Britain. In the pubs and working men's clubs... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 1 | Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery Robert Winston narrates the shocking story of health in Britain before the National Health Service. In the early 20th century, getting treated if... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 2 | Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution The Robert Winston-narrated mini-series concludes with the story of hospitals. At the beginning of the 20th century these were forbidding places... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 3 | Magnificent Machines: The Golden Age of the British Sports Car Timeshift sets its rear-view mirror to look back at the golden age of the British sports car. It's the story of how - in the grey austerity of the... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 4 | Klezmer Michael Grade narrates the story of klezmer, the 'original party music'. From its origins in Jewish folk music performed at weddings and Bar... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 5 | The British Army of the Rhine The affectionate story of British servicemen and their families who had to make Germany a home from home in the decades after the Second World War.... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 6 | When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the sight of bulky men in latex and the most masculine... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 7 | The Joy of (Train) Sets: The Model Railway Story From Hornby to Triang and beyond, this documentary explores how the British have been in love with model railways for more than a century. What... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 8 | Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo It is one of Britain's most popular leisure pursuits, but high street bingo came about almost by accident as the result of a loophole in an obscure... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 9 | Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain Timeshift, the black belt of the archive world, takes a look at the rise of martial arts in Britain. From the early days of bartitsu, through judo... |
![]() | Saison 12 - épisode 10 | How To Be A Lady: An Elegant History Journalist Rachel Johnson goes in search of what seems an almost vanished social type: the lady. With a handful of vintage etiquette books to guide... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 1 | Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes Timeshift returns with an exploration of the British love of fast, daring and sometimes reckless motorbike riding during a period when home-grown... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 2 | When Coal Was King Timeshift explores the lost world of coal mining and the extraordinarily rich social and cultural lives of those who worked in what was once... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 3 | Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain It is said that the average woman gets through around 30 hairstyles in a lifetime, with some changing their look entirely every 15 months. Timeshift... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 4 | A Day at the Zoo Using unique home movie footage, this is the story of how zoos captured the imagination of the British - from the first 'scientific zoological... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 5 | The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading To millions of people, Ladybird books were as much a part of childhood as battery-powered torches and warm school milk. These now iconic... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 6 | Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather A glorious national obsession is explored in this archive-rich look at the evolution of the weather forecast from print via radio to TV and beyond -... |
![]() | Saison 13 - épisode 7 | How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective For over 100 years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world's greatest consulting detective - Sherlock Holmes. And many of them... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 1 | Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem A trip back to the days when 'style wars' were just that - violent confrontations about the clothes you wore. Spring 2014 marks the 50th anniversary... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 2 | Killer Storms and Cruel Winters: The History of Extreme Weather If you think Britain has recently been on the end of some of the worst floods and storms ever experienced, think again. So says solar scientist Dr... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 3 | Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain Timeshift tells the story of how a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and looks at the key... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 4 | Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest Between the 1920s and the 1960s the world's great powers sent vast military-style expeditions to conquer the peaks of the Himalayas, with Everest at... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 5 | The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of nationalisation. For all its bad reputation today, the old British Rail boldly transformed a... |
![]() | Saison 14 - épisode 6 | Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic Timeshift looks at how post-war Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, now... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 1 | The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys Writer and presenter Andrew Martin asks why we once named trains and why we don't do so anymore. He embarks on three railway journeys around... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 2 | A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story For over 200 years, Ordnance Survey has mapped every square mile of the British Isles, capturing not just the contours and geography of our nation,... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 3 | The Engine That Powers the World The surprising story of the hidden powerhouse behind the globalised world - the diesel engine, a 19th-century invention that has become... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 4 | The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets Timeshift casts off for a colourful voyage of 'high teas on the high seas' in the company of passengers and crew of the vintage steamers which were... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 5 | Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC After more than 60 years tracking James Bond in print and on screen, the BBC opens up its vaults to reveal the forgotten files on the world's most... |
![]() | Saison 15 - épisode 6 | How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank The unlikely story of how one man with some ex-WWII army equipment eventually turned a muddy field in Cheshire into a key site in the space race.... |
![]() | Saison 16 - épisode 1 | Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built 2016 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the Severn Bridge, which completed the motorway link between England and Wales. Timeshift tells the inside... |
![]() | Saison 16 - épisode 2 | Sailors, Ships and Stevedores: The Story of British Docks For generations, Britain's docks in cities like Liverpool, London and Cardiff were our commercial portals to the world but, as Timeshift shows, they... |
![]() | Saison 16 - épisode 3 | Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps Timeshift charts the evolution of the British postage stamp and examines how these sticky little labels became a national obsession. Like many of... |
![]() | Saison 16 - épisode 4 | Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop What is it about the British and the corner shop? The corner shop has always been there for us, it's a British institution. It was on the front line... |
![]() | Saison 16 - épisode 5 | Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British Timeshift ventures inside places of sporting achievement, scientific endeavour and male obsession - the lofts of pigeon fanciers - to tell the story... |
![]() | Saison 17 - épisode 1 | Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car Exploring the British experience of family cars, from the Morris Minor to the Ford Cortina, the VW Golf to the Volvo estate, school runs to family... |
![]() | Saison 17 - épisode 2 | Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service Timeshift looks back on nearly two centuries of British firefighting, and explores how major incidents and the evolution of equipment from manual... |
| Saison 17 - épisode 3 | Dial B for Britain: The Story of the Landline Timeshift tells the story of how Britain's phone network was built. Incredibly, there was once a time when phones weren't pocket-sized wireless... | |
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