Documentary recalling the industrial dispute at the Grunwick film processing business in North Londo...

An in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years.

Examining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years.

In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary...

Charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC...

Timeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise...

In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thous...

This programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class

Examining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain...

From VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life

The story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought...

The story of the British love of the motor car from the earliest days of mass production in the 1920...

Created by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like D...

The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become o...

Time Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British soci...

A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s...

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Vic...

Time Shift explores the significance of children's programmes in developing young people's worldview...

Undercover reporter Donal Macintyre is among the interviewees as Time Shift looks at hidden-camera T...

Terry Wogan, Lenny Henry, Michael Buerk and Esther Rantzen guest on Time Shift's look at how charity...

Time Shift celebrates Tyneside's cultural contribution and its development through the eyes of write...

From banned 1950s drama Party Manners to House of Cards and State of Play, the secrets of TV thrille...

Time Shift looks back at how a group of idealistic architects changed the face of council housing in...

Timeshift looks at the changing role of the Church of England parish priest over the last 40 years.

In the last 40 years, money and fame have transformed footballers from working class heroes to multi...

John Boorman-directed documentary from 1963, recounting a week in the life of the players and manage...

Paul Morley and Michael Rosen are among those discussing the changing experiences of children who gr...

Time Shift profiles Nigel Kneale, the brains behind such disconcerting chillers as The Stone Tapes a...

Timeshift profiles the journalist, a conflict-battered idealist who feared for the worst and campaig...

Time Shift examins mankind's obsession with the end of the world, looking at how science and religio...

The conventional view of the country-side is of a rural idyll perpetuated by our cultural tradition...

Timeshift looks at how precocious children challenge thinking about education - and whether labellin...

The story of the generation of doctors who came from the Indian subcontinent to become the hidden he...

Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorw...

The story of Britain's lost generation of TV entertainment, from the golden age of light entertainme...

A look back to the years when progressive rock ruled the universe, with bands such as Yes, Emerson,...

The PC has shrunk in size, but grown in power - Time Shift charts its evolution. Contributors includ...

Until the 1980s Whitehall was able to use the Official Secrets Act to suppress information it didn't...

A look at the decisive moments of the latter 20th century through the eyes of the late Charles Wheel...

A look at the history of Britain's art schools, the most exciting educational establishments in Brit...

TV fantasies played out on our TV screens in the mid sixties, Timeshift take a look back at the wild...

Time Shift profiles the late Jack Rosenthal from humble beginnings to his success as writer of such...

Notting Hill Carnival is Britain's biggest street party and a celebration of London's cultural melti...

Time Shift examines the very special place occupied by the pub in British society. Arthur Smith narr...

In the days before editing ensured slick production values and blemish-free performances, TV drama w...

Soap-dodging scroungers or free-thinking champions of an alternative lifestyle? Time Shift examines...

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...

Britain was, briefly, the unlikely player in the field of rocket research. Time Shift tells the stor...

Timeshift charts the spectacular growth of the supermarket over the past 50 years, examining how it...

Time Shift traces the rise and fall of British Leyland shop steward Derek Robinson. In the mid 70s,...

The National Lottery's launch in 1994 confirmed Britain as a nation of gamblers - yet just over 40 y...

Timeshift explores how television's early days exploited the spectacle of the circus. Including the...

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

Timeshift looks at conscientious objectors from the first World War to today; those who refused to s...

The rise and fall of the theatre critic - who brought swearing to the BBC and nudity to the West End...

Jewish entertainers have dominated parts of the industry in the UK and US for decades, Time Shift in...

Writers Alan Bleasdale and Lee Billy Elliot Hall discuss the work of the writer for Time Shift. With...

When Margaret Thatcher 's government starved Sinn Fein of the "oxygen of publicity", it was the most...

Doctor Who and Casanova have both benefited from the writing of Russell T Davies. Time Shift examine...

Time Shift looks at how satirists have portrayed politicians in such television creations as Yes Min...

Sixty years ago, postwar Europe was seen as a dirty, chaotic place where you couldn't drink the wate...

Time Shift examines the history of English football fans travelling to Europe, and the attendant sub...

A member of OJ Simpson's "dream team", plus the lawyer who defended nanny Louise Woodward , are amon...

Since King Kong broke box office records, apes have been big business. Time Shift takes a wry look a...

Adam Hart-Davis explores the world of Britain's 40,000 amateur astronomers. While the last century s...

Time Shift takes a look at the now notorious show, whose blacked-up singing and dancing routines rul...

Time Shift charts the devastating effect on children - some as young as five - who care for infirm p...

Documentary recalling the social revolution which swept across Britain from 1946. A new dance craze,...

Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name's the Same and Ask Your...

The changing sporting fortunes of England and Australia as recounted in this Time Shift documentary.

Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government inspire...

Francine Stock narrates the story of the Third Programme, a high-culture radio show launched in 1946...

In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded by six Oxbridge undergr...

Documentary explores the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes through his various screen incarnation...

Time Shift presents clips of the strangest Sherlocks, with pastiche and parody from Roland Rat to Jo...

Robert Lindsay and Miranda Richardson guest in Time Shift's profile of the TV dramatist.

Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has acquired a new spirit o...

Jimmy McGovern and Ken Loach are among those reflecting on left-wing drama of the 1960s and 70s, loo...

From Pygmalion to Paxman, Time Shift traces the cult of plain-speaking. Narrated by Tamsin Greig.

A quirky Time Shift compilation of TV appearances by these two heavenly bodies, including Patrick Mo...

Marking 60 years of the Central Office of Information, Time Shift celebrates PIFs, from HIV awarenes...

Welcome to 1973 - the year that saw the three-day week and the arrival of a fictional character from...

The creators of Life on Mars (2006) discuss the series and how it was made.

After The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism, this documentary explores the climate which has p...

Nigel Planer narrates a documentary taking a fond look at the growing pains of the university throug...

Documentary looking at the history of robots, androids and cyborgs in both fact and fiction. Contrib...

Documentary on the relationship between Australia and the UK since the Second World War, beginning w...

Bill Nighy narrates a documentary telling the story of the long and often extraordinary relationship...

The story of table tennis and how it became the most popular sport in Asia. The programme revisits t...

Playful viewer's guide to entering another dimension, narrated by Richard Ayoade, featuring some of...

A comic exploration of the cult of Dracula. From Bela Lugosi to bloodsucking bikes, with a Mexican t...

Where has a decade and more of rising prosperity across the social spectrum left Britain's middle cl...

Documentary which traces the rise and fall of a great British brand, exploring how Rover cars went f...

Documentary which looks at how the rituals that mark our milestones in life - baptism, the first day...

Documentary looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the...

Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream...

Documentary about the first mass-produced food brands focusing on Perrier water, Cadbury's Dairy Mil...

Political commentator Andrew Marr assesses what it takes to be a successful British premier based on...

Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Radio hits...

Radio 2 was created out of the old Light Programme, but the modern station, with its targeted playli...

Live performance in which Emmylou Harris presents her ten rules of what makes a great country song,...

BBC collection of performances which traces Emmylou Harris's musical development from her first Brit...

An exploration of the way archaeology has been presented on television over the past 50 years, from...

Profile of Mortimer Wheeler, who became the public face of archaelogy for almost 40 years. With the...

Beginning with the rise of Russophobia in Victorian Britain, former MI5 director general Stella Rimi...

Writer Colin Shindler returns to Manchester to revisit his childhood and tell his own intensely pers...

Using computerised analysis, an experiment to find out how English football has really changed in th...

It's the season of peace and goodwill to all, when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves....

Inspired by the maverick US advertisers of Madison Avenue, a new generation of British ad men create...

Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonath...

Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writ...

Documentary that tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after...

To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the...

Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solver...

Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Eng...

A team of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hi...

Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an eco...

Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Bat...

Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the...

Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the...

Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestig...

In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go thro...

A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved c...

Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert...

Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white...

Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and...

Cultural historian Andrew Hussey follows his success with France on a Plate by travelling back to hi...

The story of how the north went from being Britain's economic engine room to cultural powerhouse. An...

Documentary exploring how, in the 1960s, the British people fell in love with animals and how endang...

Documentary which investigates the success of Scandinavian crime fiction, from Stieg Larsson's bests...

Profile of a new wave of Italian crime fiction that has emerged to challenge the conventions of the...

Documentary which journeys back to the 1950s when the coach was king. Those who had not travelled be...

Documentary bringing the story of the coach up to date, exploring the most recent phase of Britain's...

Documentary lifting the veil on the taboo that is corporal punishment, revealing a history spanning...

Documentary tracing the story of the ultimate sanction, examining such matters as the protocols of t...

Documentary about the BBC's Rough Justice series, which began investigating miscarriages of justice...

Documentary which charts how luxury hotels have met the needs of new forms of wealth - from aristocr...

Documentary which explores the history of the fairground, from the sideshows to the freak shows, and...

Film which uses the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive to explore the history of...

The story behind the humble picture postcard, told by comic creation Nigel Walmsley. With their own...

Documentary examining the work of the BBFC, casting an eye over some of the most infamous cases in i...

Documentary which looks at why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful...

Documentary exploring how the tram liberated overcrowded cities, mapping its journey from horse-draw...

Documentary which goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of the biggest film genre of them all -...

With contributions from Barry Cryer, Stuart Maconie and others, this documentary tells the unnatural...

Documentary which digs into the archive to discover the unwritten rules that have governed the way w...

The shocking story of health before the NHS. In the early 20th century, getting treated if you were...

Robert Winston explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to...

Michael Grade narrates the story of klezmer, from its origins in Jewish folk music performed at wedd...

Timeshift looks back to a time when iconic British marques like Jaguar, Austin-Healey, MG and Triump...

Documentary telling the affectionate story of British servicemen and their families who had to make...

Timeshift looks back to a time when British professional wrestling attracted huge TV audiences and m...

The Model Railway Story: Documentary which explores how the British have been in love with model rai...

Documentary looking at how a loophole in an obscure piece of gambling legislation led to nearly a qu...

Documentary taking a look at Britain's long and illustrious involvement with the martial arts, from...

With a handful of vintage etiquette books and some film archive to guide her, journalist Rachel John...

Documentary which explores the British love of fast, daring and sometimes reckless motorbike riding...

Documentary which explores the lost world of coal mining and the rich social and cultural lives of t...

Timeshift takes a loving and sometimes horrified look back at the iconic hairdos and 'must have' hai...

Documentary telling the story of how zoos captured the British public's imagination - from the first...

Timeshift documentary about Ladybird books, which once informed people on such diverse subjects as h...

A national obsession is explored in this archive-rich look at the evolution of the weather forecast...

Film charting the evolution of Sherlock Holmes on screen, from silent movies to the latest film and...

A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked...

Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions he...

How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and h...

The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperia...

Using the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of p...

How postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nati...

Author and railway enthusiast Andrew Martin travels the route of three famous named trains from bygo...

For over 200 years, Ordnance Survey has mapped every square mile of the British Isles, capturing not...

The story behind the invention of the diesel engine in the 19th century that later became the workho...

A voyage in the company of passengers and crew of the vintage steamers, which were common sight on t...

After more than 60 years tracking James Bond in print and on screen, the BBC opens up its vaults to...

How Bernard Lovell's telescope was used by both the Americans and the Russians to track their compet...

A look at the engineering behind the construction of the Severn Bridge, and the impact the bridge ha...

How Britain's docks in cities like Liverpool, London and Cardiff were commercial portals and gateway...

A look at how the introduction of the penny post changed Britain, and how enthusiasm for the first s...

Babita Sharma traces the history of the corner shop in Britain, from its Victorian suburban origins,...

Timeshift ventures inside places of sporting achievement, scientific endeavour and male obsession -...

Exploring the British experience of family cars, from the Morris Minor to the Ford Cortina, the VW G...

Timeshift looks back on nearly two centuries of British firefighting, exploring how major incidents...

From early call boxes to the Post Office Tower, Timeshift tells the story of how Britain's phone net...