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Timeshift

Season 3 2003 - 2004
TV-PG

  • 2003-10-01T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • 13h (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2003-10-01T20:00:00Z

3x01 Cold War Kids

Season Premiere

3x01 Cold War Kids

  • 2003-10-01T20:00:00Z1h

Paul Morley and Michael Rosen are among those discussing the changing experiences of children who grew up in the shadow of the Cold War.

2003-10-15T20:00:00Z

3x02 The Kneale Tapes

3x02 The Kneale Tapes

  • 2003-10-15T20:00:00Z1h

Time Shift profiles Nigel Kneale, the brains behind such disconcerting chillers as The Stone Tapes and The Ouatermass Experiment.

Time Shift profiles the journalist, a conflict-battered idealist who feared for the worst and campaigned for the best.

3x04 Apocalypse Now… and Then

  • 2003-10-29T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift examins mankind's obsession with the end of the world, looking at how science and religion fuel the belief that armageddon is just around the corner.

2003-11-05T21:00:00Z

3x05 The Lie of the Land

3x05 The Lie of the Land

  • 2003-11-05T21:00:00Z1h

The conventional view of the country-side is of a rural idyll perpetuated by our cultural tradition - but does this idyll really exist? Time Shift investigates.

2003-11-19T21:00:00Z

3x06 Child Prodigies

3x06 Child Prodigies

  • 2003-11-19T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift looks at how precocious children challenge thinking about education - and whether labelling a child as "gifted" does more harm than good.

The story of the generation of doctors who came from the Indian subcontinent to become the hidden heroes who have provided the backbone of the NHS for the last 40 years. Despite enduring years of discrimination, they fulfilled Britain's health needs and carved successful careers that took them to the heart of the British medical establishment. Now, as they collectively reach retirement age, Britain faces a crisis in healthcare.

2003-12-17T21:00:00Z

3x08 Jet Set

3x08 Jet Set

  • 2003-12-17T21:00:00Z1h

Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorways before winging their way across the skies heading for yachts and exotic locations that the rest of us could only dream of. They were the aristocrats, the high fliers and high earners whose lives and loves fascinated us long before celebrity became a dirty word.

This film looks back at the glamorous heyday of the jet set from the 1950s to the 1970s. Contributors include former Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart, psychologist Dr Martyn Dyer Smith, society columnist Ross Benson, travel writer Simon Calder, Concorde pilot Christopher Orlebar and former women's magazine editor Marcelle d'Argy Smith.

2003-12-29T21:00:00Z

3x09 Missing Believed Wiped

3x09 Missing Believed Wiped

  • 2003-12-29T21:00:00Z1h

The story of Britain's lost generation of TV entertainment, from the golden age of light entertainment in the 1950s, via the "sacrilegious" tape erasing of the 1960s and 1970s, to recent lucky finds.

2004-01-19T21:00:00Z

3x10 Prog Rock

3x10 Prog Rock

  • 2004-01-19T21:00:00Z1h

A look back to the years when progressive rock ruled the universe, with bands such as Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson filling stadia with their grandiose stage shows. Contributors include Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, Yes drummer Bill Bruford, Old Grey Whistle Test presenter Bob Harris, DJ John Peel and rock critic Charles Shaar-Murray.

The PC has shrunk in size, but grown in power - Time Shift charts its evolution. Contributors include Sir Clive Sinclair.

2004-03-02T21:00:00Z

3x12 Whistleblowers

3x12 Whistleblowers

  • 2004-03-02T21:00:00Z1h

Until the 1980s Whitehall was able to use the Official Secrets Act to suppress information it didn't want disclosed. Time Shift recalls those who spoke out on stories the Government did not want to be told.

Season Finale

2004-03-04T21:00:00Z

3x13 Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame

Season Finale

3x13 Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame

  • 2004-03-04T21:00:00Z1h

A look at the decisive moments of the latter 20th century through the eyes of the late Charles Wheeler. One of journalism's most dedicated yet modest professionals, Wheeler was at the forefront of world news reporting for over 50 years. Contributors include Jeremy Paxman, John Simpson and son-in-law Boris Johnson.

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