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Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 11019 min.
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG

Season 9 (April 3, 2009, midnight)

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.

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Season 9 (April 3, 2009, midnight)

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.

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April 3, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E1 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science

Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis.
Oct. 22, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E2 - The Golden Age of Liners

Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant.
Oct. 29, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E3 - The Men Who Built the Liners

Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.
Nov. 3, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E4 - The Last Days of the Liners

Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.
Dec. 21, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E5 - How to Win at Chess

In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from opening gambit to checkmate.
Dec. 22, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E6 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, including Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine.
Dec. 22, 2009, midnight 0.0

S9E7 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words

Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
March 24, 2010, midnight 0.0

S9E8 - Bread: A Loaf Affair

Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary experts began to trumpet the virtues of brown.
June 29, 2010, midnight 0.0

S9E9 - Disappearing Dad

Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be depicted as marginal, loopy or entirely absent.
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 11019 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 2002
Last Air Date: April 20, 2017, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+

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