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Modern Times

Season 1995 1995

  • 1995-02-23T04:50:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 20h (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
Series documenting aspects of the contemporary world.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1995-02-23T04:50:00Z

1995x01 Mad About the Boy

Season Premiere

1995x01 Mad About the Boy

  • 1995-02-23T04:50:00Z1h

Documentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their first meeting. The programme follows their turbulent relationship through their marriage in England and Carol's trip back to the Gambia to see if they can settle there.

1995-03-02T04:50:00Z

1995x02 Cheating Hearts

1995x02 Cheating Hearts

  • 1995-03-02T04:50:00Z1h

Mike Emilianow ,
New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few hundred dollars, Emilianow offers at least certainty.

1995-03-09T04:50:00Z

1995x03 Harley Street

1995x03 Harley Street

  • 1995-03-09T04:50:00Z1h

London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of private medicine's most exclusive address. But what is really on offer for those who have the means to pay?

1995-03-16T04:50:00Z

1995x04 Death on Request

1995x04 Death on Request

  • 1995-03-16T04:50:00Z1h

The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife, and the doctor who agrees to administer the fatal injection.

1995-03-23T04:50:00Z

1995x05 Weekenders

1995x05 Weekenders

  • 1995-03-23T04:50:00Z1h

What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to which they escape every Friday night in the hope that they will have two days of a calmer, gentler life.

1995-03-30T04:50:00Z

1995x06 Goodbye, Dear Friend

1995x06 Goodbye, Dear Friend

  • 1995-03-30T04:50:00Z1h

Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet bereavement, visits a pet cemetery, and hears some of the stories of the bereft.

1995-04-06T03:50:00Z

1995x07 Open Prison

1995x07 Open Prison

  • 1995-04-06T03:50:00Z1h

This documentary goes inside the so-called "holiday camp" of Britain's penal system - Ford Prison, the low-security jail at Arundel, West Sussex - and discovers a two-tier system.

1995-04-13T03:50:00Z

1995x08 The Fame Game

1995x08 The Fame Game

  • 1995-04-13T03:50:00Z1h

Liz Breweris London's top society "fixer". Her clients are super-rich newcomers who want to buy fame on the glitterati circuit and in the gossip columns.

1995-04-20T03:50:00Z

1995x09 Billy - a Violent Mind

1995x09 Billy - a Violent Mind

  • 1995-04-20T03:50:00Z1h

A series about the way we live now. Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London cure Billy of his obsession?

1995-04-27T03:50:00Z

1995x10 Channel Wars

1995x10 Channel Wars

  • 1995-04-27T03:50:00Z1h

The Channel tunnel has been plagued by problems. Now, as the battle hots up between Eurotunnel and P&0 Ferries for cross-Channel business, Modern Times takes a look behind the scenes.

1995-05-04T03:50:00Z

1995x11 The Tribe

1995x11 The Tribe

  • 1995-05-04T03:50:00Z1h

This film records the anti-Establishment lifestyle of the Rainbow Tribe and their confrontations with the police.

1995-05-11T03:50:00Z

1995x12 Club Expat

1995x12 Club Expat

  • 1995-05-11T03:50:00Z1h

A look at the luxurious lifestyles and aspirations of the 20,000 members of the British community in Dubai, the most liberal of the oil-rich Gulf states.

1995-05-18T03:50:00Z

1995x13 Playing God

1995x13 Playing God

  • 1995-05-18T03:50:00Z1h

In the last programme of the senes, a documentary team is allowed inside the secret world of adoption as two social workers make their decisions.

1995-11-02T04:50:00Z

1995x14 Bogus Callers

1995x14 Bogus Callers

  • 1995-11-02T04:50:00Z1h

The documentary series about how we live today starts with a look at the men who pose as officials to trick their way into the homes of the elderly and the vulnerable.

1995-11-09T04:50:00Z

1995x15 Tory Wives

1995x15 Tory Wives

  • 1995-11-09T04:50:00Z1h

In tonight's edition of the documentary series about how we live today, wives of Tory MPs talk candidly about the toll that their husbands's careers have had on them and their families

1995-11-16T04:50:00Z

1995x16 The Inspection

1995x16 The Inspection

  • 1995-11-16T04:50:00Z1h

An inner city comprehensive prepares to undergo a compulsory appraisal by the government's newly privatised inspectors.

1995-11-30T04:50:00Z

1995x17 Cheryl's Trial

1995x17 Cheryl's Trial

  • 1995-11-30T04:50:00Z1h

Cheryl Tooze's parents were murdered over two years ago, and her boyfriend was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. But her trauma continues as those around her "judge" the extent of her grief and her continued loyalty to her partner.

1995-12-07T04:50:00Z

1995x18 Lido

1995x18 Lido

  • 1995-12-07T04:50:00Z1h

A look at British life as enacted around an "urban beach" - the Brockwell Park Lido in south
London.

1995-12-14T04:50:00Z

1995x19 The Partners

1995x19 The Partners

  • 1995-12-14T04:50:00Z1h

Seventy years ago. John Spedan Lewis gave away his store to his workers. Today, the John Lewis Partnership maintains its democratic structure, despite the pressures of a competitive market.

1995-12-21T04:50:00Z

1995x20 Man Seeks Woman

1995x20 Man Seeks Woman

  • 1995-12-21T04:50:00Z1h

Three men with very different circumstances who, like thousands of other people throughout Britain, are using small ads and dating agencies to locate their perfect partner. Postponed from 22 November.

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