The Robshaws discover how the race for a Christmas number one single was born, meet an EastEnders star who reminisces...
One family time-travels through six decades of festive nostalgia. A wartime Christmas has the Robshaws embracing the ...
David Dimbleby explores how the sea emerged as a source of pleasure, Punch and Judy and sand sculpture, before docking into Gre...
This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated in 1973 with folk song, dance and ritual. For 12 months, from M...
Documentary about the Friction Dynamics factory strike, near Caernarfon.
Documentary on the Hillsborough disaster. Witness interviews show the horror of the day and expose the failures of the police and press in the wake of the tragedy.
Waxed jackets have been handmade in a north east factory for over 100 years. We meet the workers keeping these traditional skills...
John Morgan interviews groups of mods and rockers about their lifestyles.
Schools history programme looking at the 1960's.
After 100 years running a corner shop in Sheffield, the Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure by exploring how ...
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 Arderns continue their time-travelling journey running a corner shop and enter the 70s. Comedian Sanjeev Kohli visits the fam...
The Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure from postwar rationing to the boom years of the 60s and discover how s...
The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey in the 20s, 30s and 40s. From Izal loo roll to powdered eggs, they ...
The Arderns start their time-travelling adventure running a Victorian corner shop, discovering how life behind the counter re...
Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Sally Holloway and comedian Cariad Lloyd in the long 18th...
When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campa...
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 the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.
Dominic Sandbrook looks at sex discrimination laws, football hooliganism and industrial unrest.
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.
Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the 1970s. He reveals a Britain brimming with aspiration as ordinary people first felt the thrill of freedo...
Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...
Suzy Klein examines how the music of the 19th century was able to flourish throug...
Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in th...
Suzy Klein shows how, as the aristocracy weakened and the middle classes flourished, compos...
Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her ...
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music ...
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded s...
Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music tha...
Simon Schama explores the fate of art in the machine- and profit-driven world, looking at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity.
Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. The late 80s saw Britain transformed, from the rise of the yuppie to a growi...
Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...
The story of one village across all of English history concludes with a look at Victorian concerts, WW...
James May discovers how cars became an everyday part of people's lives. His journey begins in Europe, where he reveals a tale of ...
Documentary looking at the manipulation of football by Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, as they seized upon the sport as a way to win the hearts and minds ...
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 ...
Among the Worst Royal Jobs in History are: Jousting lance maker, link maker for chainmail armour, cadgman f...
Among the worst jobs of the Georgian Age (1714-1837): Artists model, Customs Riding officer, Garden ornament, bath attendant, Cas...
The British Navy has created some truly awful jobs throughout its history. Tony Robinson investigates wh...
Tony tries his hand at some of the most difficult and disgusting jobs from Victorian England's history.
Guy Martin helps to get Llandudno - the queen of Victorian sea-side resorts - up to scratch in time for the summer season, workin...
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 ...
The Robshaw family enter the 90s. Giles Coren and food historian Polly Russell introduce them to the culinary treats of the era.
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 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 space-age 60s, with a gleaming fitted kitchen and the arrival of a host of new tastes and fl...
A British family experiences 1950s life, including a diet of dried eggs, dripping and liver prepared in a basic kitchen. Presented by Giles C...
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