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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.
Episode 15 : Goodbye Children Everywhere
May. 26,2007
Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither seen nor heard, as ITV cuts back on its commitment and the BBC now only makes programmes for under-11s.
Episode 14 : Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health
March. 25,2007
Documentary looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the UK, and if it's the end for traditions and rituals which go back centuries.
Episode 13 : First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom
March. 24,2007
Documentary which looks at how the rituals that mark our milestones in life - baptism, the first day at school, the first drink - are changing in today's society.
Episode 12 : Rover: The Long Goodbye
March. 20,2007
Documentary which traces the rise and fall of a great British brand, exploring how Rover cars went from defining their eras to becoming victims of their times.
Episode 11 : The New Middle Classes
March. 04,2007
Where has a decade and more of rising prosperity across the social spectrum left Britain's middle class? Much bigger certainly. But does that mean we're all middle class now? Novelist Tim Lott takes a quirky and humorous journey through the new social landscape of Britain in search of some answers.
Episode 10 : Transylvania Babylon
December. 28,2006
A comic exploration of the cult of Dracula. From Bela Lugosi to bloodsucking bikes, with a Mexican tag-wrestling version thrown in for good measure, this ghoulish compilation is an entertaining homage to the vampire tradition gifted us by Bram Stoker's famous Count.
Episode 9 : Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide
November. 29,2006
Playful viewer's guide to entering another dimension, narrated by Richard Ayoade, featuring some of TV and cinema's best-known alternate universes, from the likes of Star Trek, Sliders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Futurama and Doctor Who.
Episode 8 : Planet Ping Pong
September. 11,2006
The story of table tennis and how it became the most popular sport in Asia. The programme revisits the glory days of the 30s and 40s, when thousands would cram into Wembley to watch top players do battle.
Episode 7 : Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction
August. 30,2006
Bill Nighy narrates a documentary telling the story of the long and often extraordinary relationship between fact and fiction in the mysterious world of British espionage.
Episode 6 : Oz and Them
January. 16,2007
Documentary on the relationship between Australia and the UK since the Second World War, beginning with the Queen's 1954 visit to Australia and ending with the 2005 Ashes.
Episode 5 : Machine Men
May. 13,2006
Documentary looking at the history of robots, androids and cyborgs in both fact and fiction. Contributors include sci-fi visionary Brian Aldiss and writer Kim Newman.
Episode 4 : Carry On Campus
May. 10,2006
Nigel Planer narrates a documentary taking a fond look at the growing pains of the university through the eyes of the writers who immortalised it in the campus novel.
Episode 3 : The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold
May. 01,2006
After The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted it to make such an effective challenge to conventional history.
Episode 2 : Creating 'Life on Mars'
April. 02,2006
The creators of Life on Mars (2006) discuss the series and how it was made.
Episode 1 : Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week
April. 01,2006
Welcome to 1973 - the year that saw the three-day week and the arrival of a fictional character from 2006 in the BBC1 drama Life on Mars. The success of the latter has acted as a springboard for a week-long BBC4 season. This excellent Time Shift concentrates on the winter of strikes and power cuts.
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