Timeshift: Season 1
Episodes
The Grunwick Strike
Oct 10, 2002 · 60 min
Documentary recalling the industrial dispute at the Grunwick film processing business in North London in 1976. Featuring film archive from the time and interviews with key players.
The Cannabis Years
Oct 12, 2002 · 60 min
An in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years.
The Writer's Trade
Oct 19, 2002 · 60 min
Examining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years.
The Sailing Sixties
Nov 9, 2002 · 60 min
In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revolution that was kick-started by waterproof glues developed for bomb
Attenborough: The Controller Years
Nov 16, 2002 · 60 min
Charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock full of interviews, clips and reminiscences both old and new, in
he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
Nov 30, 2002 · 60 min
Timeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Monty Python team. Contributors include Syd Little and Barr
A Shadow Over Europe
Dec 3, 2002 · 60 min
In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, as the Czech Republic heads for EU membership, Charles Wheeler r
Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
Feb 11, 2003 · 60 min
This programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class
Notting Hill Riots
Jan 18, 2003 · 60 min
Examining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain and inspired the annual carnival.
What Have the Germans Done for Us?
Feb 16, 2003 · 60 min
From VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life
Greenham Common Changed My Life
Feb 23, 2003 · 60 min
The story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought them to Greenham, their protests, conflicts with authority and the life they led
Car Crazy
Mar 2, 2003 · 60 min
The story of the British love of the motor car from the earliest days of mass production in the 1920s to today's MPVs and post-modern Minis told through a succession of classic mod
The Magic Roundabout Story
Mar 16, 2003 · 60 min
Created by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like Dougal. It transformed the careers of actor Eric Thompson and animator Ivor Wood
Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream
Mar 24, 2003 · 60 min
The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniune originals? Interviewees include Cormac Murphy O'Connor.
Gurus
Mar 30, 2003 · 60 min
Time Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British society.
A Brief Interlude
Feb 16, 2003 · 60 min
A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in during technical breakdowns and gaps in the schedules. The most famo