Timeshift

Season 14

Series looking at changes in British society, employing archive footage from the BBC and other sources.
Where to Watch Season 14
6 Episodes
  • Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
    E1
    Episode 1Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday MayhemA look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.
  • Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
    E2
    Episode 2Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme WeatherLucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.
  • Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
    E3
    Episode 3Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit BritainHow a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.
  • Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
    E4
    Episode 4Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film EverestSir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were immortalized when they became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. But the Himalayas had gripped adventurers from around the world throughout the twentieth century and many were determined not just to reach its summits, but to capture the mountains on film.
  • The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
    E5
    Episode 5The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British RailUsing the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of public ownership in a corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail.
  • Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
    E6
    Episode 6Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went ExoticHow postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, thanks to generations of migrants opening eateries.
 
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