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Timeshift

Season 4 2004 - 2005
TV-PG

  • 2004-06-19T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • 20h 39m (21 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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

21 episodes

Season Premiere

2004-06-19T20:00:00Z

4x01 Art School

Season Premiere

4x01 Art School

  • 2004-06-19T20:00:00Z1h

A look at the history of Britain's art schools, the most exciting educational establishments in Britain for two decades. The engines of the 1960s counter culture, they produced a generation of young go-getters who would take on the establishment and create the new industries of fashion, graphic design and pop music. Contributors include Brian Eno, Mary Quant, Kim Howells and Brian Rice.

2004-06-26T20:00:00Z

4x02 Fantasy Sixties

4x02 Fantasy Sixties

  • 2004-06-26T20:00:00Z1h

2004-07-18T20:00:00Z

4x03 Rosenthal

4x03 Rosenthal

  • 2004-07-18T20:00:00Z1h

Time Shift profiles the late Jack Rosenthal from humble beginnings to his success as writer of such dramas as The Evacuees and Cold Enough for Snow.

2004-08-28T20:00:00Z

4x04 The Carnival Years

4x04 The Carnival Years

  • 2004-08-28T20:00:00Z1h

Notting Hill Carnival is Britain's biggest street party and a celebration of London's cultural melting pot. But, as Time Shift reports, its success has been dogged by controversy. With Trevor Nelson

2004-10-07T20:00:00Z

4x05 The History of Pubs

4x05 The History of Pubs

  • 2004-10-07T20:00:00Z39m

Time Shift examines the very special place occupied by the pub in British society. Arthur Smith narrates, with contributions from Jeremy Hardy , Rowan Pelling and Pete Brown.

2004-10-14T20:00:00Z

4x06 Live on the Night

4x06 Live on the Night

  • 2004-10-14T20:00:00Z1h

In the days before editing ensured slick production values and blemish-free performances, TV drama was a live medium.
Bill Nighy narrates a Time Shift retrospective on a time when things didn't always go to plan on screen.

2004-10-21T20:00:00Z

4x07 New Age Travellers

4x07 New Age Travellers

  • 2004-10-21T20:00:00Z1h

Soap-dodging scroungers or free-thinking champions of an alternative lifestyle? Time Shift examines the origins of those regarded by many as social pariahs, revealing how at one time their ideas had a surprising degree of government support.

2004-10-28T20:00:00Z

4x08 Drugs in Sport

4x08 Drugs in Sport

  • 2004-10-28T20:00:00Z1h

Time Shift tells the stories of athletes ruined by drugs - or allegations of them.

Pete Tong and Ranking Miss P contribute to Time Shift's look at the evolution of the DJ from pirate radio outlaw to modern superstar.

2004-11-16T21:00:00Z

4x10 British Space Race

4x10 British Space Race

  • 2004-11-16T21:00:00Z1h

Britain was, briefly, the unlikely player in the field of rocket research. Time Shift tells the story of unsung pioneers of space exploration: the rocket engineers, the scientists and, ultimately, the dreamers who never gave up on a vision of bringing the future into the present. Interviewees include Professor Colin Pillinger, lead scientist of Beagle 2.

4x11 Pile It High, Sell It Cheap

  • 2005-01-20T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift charts the spectacular growth of the supermarket over the past 50 years, examining how it has influenced British society.

2005-02-02T21:00:00Z

4x12 Red Robbo

4x12 Red Robbo

  • 2005-02-02T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift traces the rise and fall of British Leyland shop steward Derek Robinson. In the mid 70s, he wielded immense power over management at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham. But by the end of 1979 he had been fired, a victim of the Conservative government's bid to break union power.

2005-02-03T21:00:00Z

4x13 Gambling Britain

4x13 Gambling Britain

  • 2005-02-03T21:00:00Z1h

The National Lottery's launch in 1994 confirmed
Britain as a nation of gamblers - yet just over 40 years ago, betting shops and casinos were illegal. Time Shift traces governmental efforts to control gambling through legislation.

2005-02-10T21:00:00Z

4x14 The Story of Circus

4x14 The Story of Circus

  • 2005-02-10T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift explores how television's early days exploited the spectacle of the circus. Including the first live outside broadcast from Calais where a French circus artist's act was witnessed by Richard Dimbleby.

2005-02-22T21:00:00Z

4x15 Pop Svengalis

4x15 Pop Svengalis

  • 2005-02-22T21:00:00Z1h

Time Shift celebrates the dynamos behind great British bands from the 1950s to today.

Time Shift looks at conscientious objectors from the first World War to today; those who refused to serve for religious, moral or political reasons.

2005-03-02T21:00:00Z

4x17 Kenneth Tynan

4x17 Kenneth Tynan

  • 2005-03-02T21:00:00Z1h

The rise and fall of the theatre critic - who brought swearing to the BBC and nudity to the West End - is traced by Time Shift.
Presented by New Yorker critic John Lahr, it features rare contributions from Tynan's daughters.

2005-03-15T21:00:00Z

4x18 Jewish Entertainers

4x18 Jewish Entertainers

  • 2005-03-15T21:00:00Z1h

Jewish entertainers have dominated parts of the industry in the UK and US for decades, Time Shift investigates why American Jews celebrate their ethnicity while their British counterparts have often masked or even denied their roots.

Writers Alan Bleasdale and Lee Billy Elliot Hall discuss the work of the writer for Time Shift. With critics Chris Dunkley and Dave Gelly, and director John Glenister.

When Margaret Thatcher 's government starved Sinn Fein of the "oxygen of publicity", it was the most direct level of censorship since 1945. Time Shift recalls an era in which the voice of Gerry Adams was replaced by that of an actor.

Season Finale

2005-04-11T20:00:00Z

4x21 Russel T. Davis: Unscripted

Season Finale

4x21 Russel T. Davis: Unscripted

  • 2005-04-11T20:00:00Z1h

Doctor Who and Casanova have both benefited from the writing of Russell T Davies. Time Shift examines his work from children's TV to Queer as Folk and beyond, with contributions from Mark Lawson, Christopher Eccleston and Andi Peters.

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