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Season Finale

Timeshift: Season 17

17x03 Dial B for Britain: The Story of the Landline
TV-PG

  • 2017-04-20T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • Andy Hall
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Timeshift tells the story of how Britain's phone network was built. Incredibly, there was once a time when phones weren't pocket-sized wireless devices, but bulky objects wired into our homes and workplaces. Over the course of 100 years, engineers rolled out a communications network that joined up Britain - a web of more than 70 million miles of wire.
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