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Country: United Kingdom · Type: Documentary

Genres: Documentary, History

Years: 2002 - 2017

Seasons: 17 · Status: Ended

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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past

Seasons (17)

Season 1

5 Oct 2002 – 30 Mar 2003 · 15 episodes

1The Grunwick Strike5 Oct 2002
2The Cannabis Years12 Oct 2002
3The Writer's Trade19 Oct 2002
4The Sailing Sixties9 Nov 2002
5Attenborough: The Controller Years16 Nov 2002
6The Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man30 Nov 2002
7A Shadow Over Europe3 Dec 2002
8Whatever Happened to the Working Class?11 Jan 2003
9Notting Hill Riots18 Jan 2003
10What Have the Germans Done for Us?16 Feb 2003
11Greenham Common Changed My Life23 Feb 2003
12Car Crazy2 Mar 2003
13The Magic Roundabout Story16 Mar 2003
14Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream24 Mar 2003
15Gurus30 Mar 2003

Season 2

5 May 2003 – 9 Feb 2004 · 12 episodes

1The British Seaside5 May 2003
2Children's News15 May 2003
3Watching You1 Dec 2003
4TV and Charity5 Jun 2003
5Tyneside12 Jun 2003
6Political Thrillers: Plays of State15 Jun 2003
7High Rise Dreams19 Jun 2003
8Vicars: Dearly Beloved?3 Jul 2003
9Footballers' Lives21 Sep 2003
10Six Days to Saturday21 Sep 2003
11The Kneale Tapes15 Oct 2003
12Hard Drive Heaven9 Feb 2004

Season 3

1 Oct 2003 – 4 Mar 2004 · 13 episodes

1Cold War Kids1 Oct 2003
2The Kneale Tapes15 Oct 2003
3James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck22 Oct 2003
4Apocalypse Now… and Then29 Oct 2003
5The Lie of the Land5 Nov 2003
6Child Prodigies19 Nov 2003
7Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors Saved the NHS26 Nov 2003
8The Jet Set17 Dec 2003
9Missing Believed Wiped29 Dec 2003
10Prog Rock19 Jan 2004
11Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer9 Feb 2004
12Whistleblowers2 Mar 2004
13Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame4 Mar 2004

Season 4

19 Jun 2004 – 11 Apr 2005 · 21 episodes

1Art School19 Jun 2004
2Fantasy Sixties26 Jun 2004
3Rosenthal18 Jul 2004
4The Carnival Years28 Aug 2004
5Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub7 Oct 2004
6Live on the Night14 Oct 2004
7New Age Travellers21 Oct 2004
8Drugs in Sport28 Oct 2004
9Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey4 Nov 2004
10British Space Race16 Nov 2004
11Pile It High, Sell It Cheap20 Jan 2005
12Red Robbo2 Feb 2005
13Gambling Britain3 Feb 2005
14The Story of Circus10 Feb 2005
15Pop Svengalis22 Feb 2005
16Conchies: Questions of Conscience1 Mar 2005
17Kenneth Tynan2 Mar 2005
18Jewish Entertainers15 Mar 2005
19Alan Plater: Hearing the Music26 Mar 2005
20Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban4 Apr 2005
21Russel T. Davis: Unscripted11 Apr 2005

Season 5

19 May 2005 – 23 Feb 2005 · 23 episodes

1MP's on the Box19 May 2005
2Je T'Aime… How We Learned to Love Europe31 May 2005
3England Away31 May 2005
4Court on Camera16 Jul 2005
5Apes in Hollywood17 Jul 2005
6Star Men6 Aug 2005
7Black and White Minstrels Revisited8 Aug 2005
8Too Much, Too Young9 Sep 2005
9The Jitterbug Years1 Oct 2005
10Play It Again4 Oct 2005
11The Battle for the Ashes20 Oct 2005
12The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith25 Oct 2005
13The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain25 Oct 2005
14Lost Road: Overland to Singapore30 Oct 2005
15A Study in Sherlock24 Dec 2005
16Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes26 Dec 2005
17Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now15 Jan 2006
18The British Way of Death6 Feb 2006
19Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama8 Feb 2006
20Rude Britannia13 Feb 2006
21The Sun and the Moon6 Mar 2006
22Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films30 Mar 2006
23Pop Svengalis23 Feb 2005

Season 6

1 Apr 2006 – 22 May 2006 · 16 episodes

1Switch Off Something1 Apr 2006
2Creating Life on Mars2 Apr 2006
3The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold1 May 2006
4Carry On Campus10 May 2006
5Machine Men13 May 2006
6Oz and Them1 Aug 2006
7Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction29 Aug 2006
8Planet Ping Pong11 Sep 2006
9Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide28 Nov 2006
10Transylvania Babylon28 Dec 2006
11The New Middle Classes4 Mar 2007
12Rover: The Long Goodbye20 Mar 2007
13First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom24 Mar 2007
14Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health25 Mar 2007
15Goodbye Children Everywhere26 May 2007
18The British Space Race22 May 2006

Season 7

18 Apr 2007 – 9 Jun 2007 · 14 episodes

1The Edwardian Larder18 Apr 2007
2How to Be a Good Prime Minister22 Sep 2007
3Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy1 Oct 2007
4Whatever Happened to Radio 2?5 Oct 2007
5Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country12 Oct 2007
6Emmylou Harris at the BBC12 Oct 2007
7Archaeology: Digging the Past21 Oct 2007
8Sir Mortimer Wheeler: A Life in Ruins21 Oct 2007
9Watching the Russians21 Nov 2007
10Never Had It So Good?10 Dec 2007
11A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 200713 Dec 2007
12Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner23 Dec 2007
13The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man9 Mar 2008
14Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub9 Jun 2007

Season 8

14 Sep 2008 – 9 Apr 2009 · 8 episodes

1How to Be a Good President14 Sep 2008
2Between the Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film9 Oct 2008
3The Last Days of Steam16 Oct 2008
4How to Write a Mills and Boon2 Nov 2008
5How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword10 Nov 2008
6The Comic Songbook22 Dec 2008
7Fashion Versus the BBC22 Jan 2009
8The North-South Divide9 Apr 2009

Season 9

30 Apr 2009 – 29 Jun 2010 · 9 episodes

1Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science30 Apr 2009
2The Golden Age of Liners22 Oct 2009
3The Men Who Built the Liners29 Oct 2009
4The Last Days of the Liners3 Nov 2009
5How to Win at Chess21 Dec 2009
6Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films22 Dec 2009
7Clement Freud: In His Own Words22 Dec 2009
8Bread: A Loaf Affair24 Mar 2010
9Disappearing Dad29 Jun 2010

Season 10

8 Sep 2010 – 5 Apr 2011 · 9 episodes

1The North on a Plate8 Sep 2010
21960: The Year of the North14 Sep 2010
3When Britain Went Wild5 Oct 2010
4Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction20 Dec 2010
5Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction27 Dec 2010
6The Golden Age of Coach Travel5 Jan 2011
7The Modern Age of the Coach12 Jan 2011
8The Story of Corporal Punishment4 Apr 2011
9The Story of Capital Punishment5 Apr 2011

Season 11

3 Apr 2011 – 11 Jan 2012 · 11 episodes

1Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice3 Apr 2011
2Hotel Deluxe29 Jun 2011
3All the Fun of the Fair2 Aug 2011
4When the Circus Comes to Town8 Sep 2011
5The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley15 Sep 2011
6Dear Censor29 Sep 2011
7Antarctica: Of Ice and Men3 Nov 2011
8The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire5 Dec 2011
9Epic: A Cast of Thousands!24 Dec 2011
10The Smoking Years4 Jan 2012
11The Rules of Drinking11 Jan 2012

Season 12

24 Sep 2012 – 26 Mar 2013 · 10 episodes

1Health Before the NHS: The Road to Recovery24 Sep 2012
2Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution1 Oct 2012
3Magnificent Machines - The Golden Age of the British Sports Car8 Oct 2012
4Klezmer14 Oct 2012
5The British Army of the Rhine22 Oct 2012
6When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies13 Dec 2012
7The Joy of (Train) Sets - The Model Railway Story23 Jan 2013
8Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo30 Jan 2013
9Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain24 Feb 2013
10How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History26 Mar 2013

Season 13

28 Oct 2013 – 12 Jan 2014 · 7 episodes

1Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes28 Oct 2013
2When Coal Was King4 Nov 2013
3Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain13 Nov 2013
4A Day at the Zoo20 Nov 2013
5The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading22 Dec 2013
6Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather8 Jan 2014
7How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective12 Jan 2014

Season 14

26 May 2014 – 11 Mar 2015 · 6 episodes

1Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem26 May 2014
2Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather28 Jul 2014
3Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain15 Dec 2014
4Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest26 Jan 2015
5The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail24 Feb 2015
6Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic11 Mar 2015

Season 15

2 Sep 2015 – 16 Nov 2015 · 6 episodes

1The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys2 Sep 2015
2A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story9 Sep 2015
3The Engine That Powers the World23 Sep 2015
4The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets20 Oct 2015
5Looking for Mr. Bond: 007 at the BBC28 Oct 2015
6How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank16 Nov 2015