Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the 1970s. He reveals a Britain brimming with aspiration as ordinary people first felt the thrill of freedo...
Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...
The Arderns start their time-travelling adventure running a Victorian corner shop, discovering how life behind the counter re...
Suzy Klein shows how, as the aristocracy weakened and the middle classes flourished, compos...
Governments, advertisers and revolutionaries seek to exploit television's ability to instantly communicate compelling messag...
A British family experiences 1950s life, including a diet of dried eggs, dripping and liver prepared in a basic kitchen. Presented by Giles C...
The family and their home are transported to the space-age 60s, with a gleaming fitted kitchen and the arrival of a host of new tastes and fl...
The family and their home strut into the 70s, and culinary innovations from powdered orange juice to boil-in-the-bag cod come thick and fast.
The family and their home are transported to the hi-tech 80s, with a gadget-filled kitchen including a microwave the size of a small car.
The Robshaw family enter the 90s. Giles Coren and food historian Polly Russell introduce them to the culinary treats of the era.
The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey in the 20s, 30s and 40s. From Izal loo roll to powdered eggs, they ...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.
Series about the history of popular games in Britain. Benjamin Woolley traces the political and social impact that board games ha...
Michael Dean presents the second of six programmes on the origins of board games with David Brown from the Ashmolean Museum O...
Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in th...
Schools history programme looking at the 1960's.
The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question es...
The Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure from postwar rationing to the boom years of the 60s and discover how s...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at sex discrimination laws, football hooliganism and industrial unrest.
Series looking at the history of popular games in Britain. Benjamin Woolley explores the journey games have taken from board to scre...
Suzy Klein examines how the music of the 19th century was able to flourish throug...
Guy Martin helps to get Llandudno - the queen of Victorian sea-side resorts - up to scratch in time for the summer season, workin...
John Pudney traces the life and times of Thomas and John Mason Cook, the inventors of the modern package holiday, visiting ...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. The late 80s saw Britain transformed, from the rise of the yuppie to a growi...
The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey running a corner shop and enter the 70s. Comedian Sanjeev Kohli visits the fam...
David BROWN of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford looks at how the pieces developed and the craftmanship that went into them
When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campa...
Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music tha...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.
Once an amateur pursuit, sport becomes larger and more competitiveness to satisfy the public's need for excitement and ident...
The Arderns go back in time to run a corner shop through the 80s and 90s. Selling everything from Ice Magic to lottery tick...
The story of Britain through its art. In the 18th century, the triumph of commerce led to the emergence of a new 'middle' class, who ...
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded s...
After 100 years running a corner shop in Sheffield, the Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure by exploring how ...
This week: games played in the cloisters includes noughts and crosses, nine men's worries and Fox and Geese.
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music ...
The story of one village across all of English history concludes with a look at Victorian concerts, WW...
Simon Schama explores the fate of art in the machine- and profit-driven world, looking at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity.
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend the week on the diet of a wealthy Edwardian couple, being c...
Giles Coren and Sue Perkins experience the food of the Elizabethan era to see just how healthy the diet was.
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...
The Ellis family discover how life has changed for northern working-class families. 1960 marks the start of an era of prosperity. Dad Jon pu...
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...
The Ellis family see how life changed for northern working-class families in the 1970s, enjoying rare time together, helped by the acquisiti...
The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...
The Ellis' 80's home is a homage to chintz and magnolia with the exciting addition of some new technology: their first telephone, a chest fr...
Giles Coren and Polly Russell introduce the Robshaw family to some tastes of the future, and predict how we'll shop, cook and eat in the ...
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