50 Years of BBC Television News

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  • Premiered: Jul 2004
  • Episodes: 5
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  • Ended
  • BBC Two
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Season 1
1x1
1954 - 1963
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 05, 2004
Michael Buerk looks back at the birth of BBC Television News and how it showed the post war world taking shape: the black and white era of Winston Churchill, the death of John F Kennedy .. show full overview
1x2
1964 - 1973
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 05, 2004
Charles Wheeler reflects on an age which saw America embroiled in the war in Vietnam, violent clashes over civil rights and Watergate; an age when 'mods' fought 'rockers' and man landed on the moon.
1x3
1974 - 1983
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2004
Kate Adie remembers the three-day week, the IRA's mainland bombing campaign, Charles and Diana and the arrival of Britain's first woman Prime Minister, whose political fortunes were transformed when she took the country to war over the Falklands.
1x4
1984 - 1993
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2004
John Simpson looks at a decade of profound change. The Berlin Wall came down, while apartheid collapsed along with communism. Thatcher's Britain was transformed and tragedy came to Lockerbie, Enniskillen - and Ethiopia.
1x5 Show finale
1994 - 2004
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 07, 2004
Jeremy Brown introduces the age of 24-hour news, when the world watched the September 11th attacks live on television. Diana was killed in Paris; Concorde made its last flight; there .. show full overview

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