Timeshift (Staffel 8)

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.

  • Poster for How to Be a Good President

    How to Be a Good President (Folge 1)

    Autor: Jonathan Freedland

    Sendedatum: 2008-09-14

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to define the qualities which make a great US president.

  • Poster for Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film

    Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film (Folge 2)

    Sendedatum: 2008-10-09

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Wordsworth and Dickens to The Railway Children.

  • Poster for Last Days of Steam

    Last Days of Steam (Folge 3)

    Sendedatum: 2008-10-16

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Documentary that tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why it quickly came to an end.

  • Poster for How to Write a Mills and Boon

    How to Write a Mills and Boon (Folge 4)

    Sendedatum: 2008-11-02

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them, a task that ends up being harder than it looks.

  • Poster for How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword

    How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword (Folge 5) 7.0

    Sendedatum: 2008-11-10

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solvers, while fans including Prunella Scales explain why they enjoy them.

  • Poster for The Comic Songbook

    The Comic Songbook (Folge 6)

    Sendedatum: 2008-12-22

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie, and reveals the skill involved in creating them.

  • Poster for Fashion versus the BBC

    Fashion versus the BBC (Folge 7)

    Sendedatum: 2009-01-22

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: A team of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hilary Alexander looks at the relationship between British fashion and the BBC.

  • Poster for The North-South Divide

    The North-South Divide (Folge 8)

    Sendedatum: 2009-04-02

    Laufzeit: 60 min

    Übersicht: Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the decline of industry, and if it can be closed.

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