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Season 2
Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention
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Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since.
Interviewees including Jonathan Meades, Martin Parr and Bill Pertwee explain the way that the seaside has always been the place we all visit to lose our inhibitions and reveal a different side to ourselves. We look at how our different experiences of the seaside - end of the pier shows, fearsome landladies and holiday camps - have given rise to different traditions and a nostalgia, both working-class and middle-class, for a time when life's pleasures were simpler and foreign holidays were the preserve of the very rich.
Time Shift explores the significance of children's programmes in developing young people's worldview.
With Jon Snow and John Craven.
Time Shift explores the significance of children's programmes in developing young people's worldview.
With Jon Snow and John Craven.
Terry Wogan, Lenny Henry, Michael Buerk and Esther Rantzen guest on Time Shift's look at how charity and TV are interwoven - from the early days of Christmas collections for needy children to the successful annual telethons of today.
Terry Wogan, Lenny Henry, Michael Buerk and Esther Rantzen guest on Time Shift's look at how charity and TV are interwoven - from the early days of Christmas collections for needy children to the successful annual telethons of today.
Time Shift celebrates Tyneside's cultural contribution and its development through the eyes of writers, actors and others.
Time Shift celebrates Tyneside's cultural contribution and its development through the eyes of writers, actors and others.
From banned 1950s drama Party Manners to
House of Cards and State of Play, the secrets of TV thrillers are uncovered in an edition of the Time Shift strand.
From banned 1950s drama Party Manners to
House of Cards and State of Play, the secrets of TV thrillers are uncovered in an edition of the Time Shift strand.
Time Shift looks back at how a group of idealistic architects changed the face of council housing in Britain, inspired by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier and new materials, only
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Time Shift looks back at how a group of idealistic architects changed the face of council housing in Britain, inspired by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier and new materials, only to be thwarted by financial restraints, poor craftsmanship and Margaret Thatcher 's private ownership creed.
Time Shift looks at the changing role of the Church of England parish priest over the last 40 years.
Time Shift 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 multimedia icons. Time Shift explores how this change has come about and asks if today's lower league players aren't worse off than they were before.
In the last 40 years, money and fame have transformed footballers from working class heroes to multimedia icons. Time Shift explores how this change has come about and asks if today's lower league players aren't worse off than they were before.
John Boorman-directed documentary from 1963, recounting a week in the life of the players and manager of Swindon Town football club, a fascinating snapshot of a profession a world away from Premiership and sponsorship.
John Boorman-directed documentary from 1963, recounting a week in the life of the players and manager of Swindon Town football club, a fascinating snapshot of a profession a world away from Premiership and sponsorship.
Time Shift celebrates the career of pioneering TV writer Nigel Kneale, whose Quatermass serials terrified audiences in the 1950s, and whose later works such as The Stone Tape are
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Time Shift celebrates the career of pioneering TV writer Nigel Kneale, whose Quatermass serials terrified audiences in the 1950s, and whose later works such as The Stone Tape are regarded as modern classics.
For many aficionados of science fiction and the paranormal, Nigel Kneale is a hero. Cited as an influence by John Carpenter, Stephen King and the creators of The X-Files, Kneale's eclectic and intelligent dramas seem even more impressive and prescient today than when they were written in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Kneale had a 50-year career as one of British TV's leading dramatists. As well as his groundbreaking adaptation of 1984, his original work - from Quatermass to The Year of the Sex Olympics - still has the ability to shock and disturb a modern audience: not least because so much of what he predicted over the last half century has come true.
As The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss remarks in John Das' celebration of Kneale's work: "I think Nigel should have a 5-minute slot on TV where the Epilogue used to be, entitled 'I Told You So...'"
Undercover reporter Donal Macintyre is among the interviewees as Time Shift looks at hidden-camera TV. Nigel Kneale discusses how his satire The Year of the Sex Olympics feels prescient in the Big Brother world.
Undercover reporter Donal Macintyre is among the interviewees as Time Shift looks at hidden-camera TV. Nigel Kneale discusses how his satire The Year of the Sex Olympics feels prescient in the Big Brother world.
The unstoppable rise of the home computer, from the early days when PCs were the size of a room, to their current micro-accessibility.
Today the computer pervades both the workplace and
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The unstoppable rise of the home computer, from the early days when PCs were the size of a room, to their current micro-accessibility.
Today the computer pervades both the workplace and home. What started as the hobby of a group of enthusiasts - computer nerds - has ballooned into a billion-dollar business.
Time Shift charts the development of the PC from its precarious early days. The 1970s and 80s saw the explosion of the Sinclair, Spectrum, Apple Mac and Amstrad into the domestic market, while video games brought the arcade into the living room.
Sally Thomson's programme investigates how an alien and inaccessible machine has become part of the fabric of everyday life.
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