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Timewatch

Season 1982 1982
TV-PG

  • 1982-09-29T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

1982-09-29T20:00:00Z

1982x01 Windsors' War

Season Premiere

1982x01 Windsors' War

  • 1982-09-29T20:00:00Z1h

In this edition, the continuing controversy surrounding the war-time role of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Victims of a bad press, they remained tactfully silent, but now answer back through Maitre Blum their lawyer, who gives her first television interview.

The China of the Manchu Emperors and the signing of the treaties which gave Britain Hong Kong. Why do the Chinese regard these treaties as unequal?

What would have happened if on Monday 7 August 1558 a Spanish Army had marched on London from the invasion beaches of Margate? Timewatch re-examines the fate of the 16th-century Spanish task force and asks how close did it come to success?

1982x04 The life of Thomas More

  • 1982-12-22T21:00:00Z1h

Sir Thomas More, who lost his head on the scaffold in 1535. In 1937 he was made a saint. Now the heroic reputation of the ' man for all seasons' is under attack. Timewatch looks again at the life of a Tudor statesman.

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