
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.
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Air Date: 2002-10-10
Documentary recalling the industrial dispute at the Grunwick film processing business in North London in 1976. Featur...
Air Date: 2002-10-12
An in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years.
Air Date: 2002-10-19
Examining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years.
Air Date: 2002-11-09
In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revoluti...
Air Date: 2002-11-16
Charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock f...
Air Date: 2002-11-30
Timeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and ...
Air Date: 2002-12-03
In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, a...
Air Date: 2003-02-11
This programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class
Air Date: 2003-01-18
Examining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain and inspired the ...
Air Date: 2003-02-16
From VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life
Air Date: 2003-02-23
The story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought them to Greenham,...
Air Date: 2003-03-02
The story of the British love of the motor car from the earliest days of mass production in the 1920s to today's MPVs...
Air Date: 2003-03-16
Created by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like Dougal. It transfo...
Air Date: 2003-03-24
The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniun...
Air Date: 2003-03-30
Time Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British society.
Air Date: 2003-02-16
A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in durin...