

Timeshift
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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Seasons

1.The Grunwick Strike
10-10-200260mDocumentary recalling the industrial dispute at the Grunwick film processing business in North London in 1976. Featuring film archive from the time and interviews with key players.

2.The Cannabis Years
12-10-200260mAn in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years.

3.The Writer's Trade
19-10-200260mExamining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years.

4.The Sailing Sixties
09-11-200260mIn the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revolution that was kick-started by waterproof glues developed for bomb...

5.Attenborough: The Controller Years
16-11-200260mCharting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock full of interviews, clips and reminiscences both old and new, in...

6.he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
30-11-200260mTimeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Monty Python team. Contributors include Syd Little and Barr...

7.A Shadow Over Europe
03-12-200260mIn 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, as the Czech Republic heads for EU membership, Charles Wheeler r...

8.Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
11-02-200360mThis programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class
- Ep 9
9.Notting Hill Riots
18-01-200360mExamining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain and inspired the annual carnival.
- Ep 10
10.What Have the Germans Done for Us?
16-02-200360mFrom VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life
- Ep 11
11.Greenham Common Changed My Life
23-02-200360mThe story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought them to Greenham, their protests, conflicts with authority and the life they led...

12.Car Crazy
02-03-200360mThe 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 through a succession of classic mod...
- Ep 13
13.The Magic Roundabout Story
16-03-200360mCreated by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like Dougal. It transformed the careers of actor Eric Thompson and animator Ivor Wood...
- Ep 14
14.Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream
24-03-200360mThe controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniune originals? Interviewees include Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

15.Gurus
30-03-200360mTime Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British society.
- Ep 16
16.A Brief Interlude
16-02-200360mA short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in during technical breakdowns and gaps in the schedules. The most famo...
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