The Hairy Bikers: Pubs That Built Britain(2016)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2016-04-18
Average Runtime: 29m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 15
The Hairy Bikers take their charm and humour on the road as they encounter brilliant, eccentric and fascinating people across Britain whose lives surround the nation’s pubs. Their epic journey will take them into the secret world of the pubs that made Britain. From the first Roman taverns, to Anglo Saxon alehouses which sprung up in peoples’ homes, and the travelers Inns providing respite for a more mobile population, they’ll reveal the fascinating story of how Britain’s pubs evolved - but also tells a bigger story of Britain itself.
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Season 1
Episodes: 15E01
Yorkshire
Air Date: 2016-04-18
The fascinating history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit a Yorkshire pub believed to have been drunk dr...
E02
The Lake District
Air Date: 2016-04-19
Dave takes Si on a pub tour of his Lake District home patch, following in the footsteps of the poets Wordsworth and C...
E03
Manchester
Air Date: 2016-04-20
The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave take a Manchester pub crawl to uncover historic boozers once at ...
E04
Cornwall
Air Date: 2016-04-21
The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit Cornwall, where they discover pubs that were at the centre...
E05
Lincolnshire
Air Date: 2016-04-22
The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit 'Bomber County', Lincolnshire, on a mission to discover th...
E06
Liverpool
Air Date: 2016-04-25
The Hairy Bikers get groovy in Liverpool as they take a tour of some swinging 60s pubs. They meet John Lennon's drink...
E07
South Wales
Air Date: 2016-04-26
Dave visits the valleys of south Wales to uncover the history of some fascinating boozers and unearth pubs that were ...
E08
Home Counties
Air Date: 2016-04-27
From drinking medieval ale in the ancient town of St Albans to morris dancing in the oldest free house in Britain, Si...
E09
Glasgow
Air Date: 2016-04-28
Si and Dave explore Glasgow's shipbuilding history. Meeting former shipyard workers, they discover what pub life was ...
E10
East End London
Air Date: 2016-04-29
Si and Dave step back in time to the 50s and 60s of London's East End. Their tour takes them to pubs once central to ...
E11
Edinburgh
Air Date: 2016-05-02
The guys discover dark histories in pubs that witnessed murder and gruesome punishments in the 1800s, and meet a folk...
E12
Bristol
Air Date: 2016-05-03
The guys delve into Bristol's seafaring past, discovering some pubs with fascinating histories and sampling the West ...
E13
Oxford
Air Date: 2016-05-04
Si and Dave take a pub tour of Oxford to visit the spot where CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien drank pints together, plus a f...
E14
Great Fire of London
Air Date: 2016-05-05
Si and Dave's tour takes them to London, where they find inns that witnessed the Great Fire and pubs that watered the...
E15
Carlisle
Air Date: 2016-05-06
The tour ends in Carlisle, where the guys discover an extraordinary WWI government scheme designed to put a stop to d...
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