Jonathan Miller
Timeshift (2002)
Season 14
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.
Released Oct. 5, 2002
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.great-britain, tmdb.society, tmdb.culture, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.one-word-series-title, imdb.change, imdb.reenactment
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S14E1 - Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.
May 26, 2014, midnight
S14E2 - Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.
July 28, 2014, midnight
S14E3 - Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.
Dec. 15, 2014, midnight
S14E4 - Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Jan. 29, 2015, midnight
S14E5 - The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
Using the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of public ownership in a corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail.
Feb. 24, 2015, midnight
S14E6 - Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
How postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, thanks to generations of migrants opening eateries.
March 11, 2015, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 2002
Last Air Date: April 20, 2017, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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