• Premiered: Oct 2002
  • Episodes: 191
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • BBC Four
  • Wednesday at 21
  • Documentary

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Season 3
3x1
Cold War Kids
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 2003
Paul Morley and Michael Rosen are among those discussing the changing experiences of children who grew up in the shadow of the Cold War.
3x2
The Kneale Tapes
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Oct 15, 2003
Time Shift profiles Nigel Kneale, the brains behind such disconcerting chillers as The Stone Tapes and The Ouatermass Experiment.
3x3
James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck
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Oct 22, 2003
Time Shift profiles the journalist, a conflict-battered idealist who feared for the worst and campaigned for the best.
3x4
Apocalypse Now… and Then
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Air date
Oct 29, 2003
Time Shift examins mankind's obsession with the end of the world, looking at how science and religion fuel the belief that armageddon is just around the corner.
3x5
The Lie of the Land
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Nov 05, 2003
The conventional view of the country-side is of a rural idyll perpetuated by our cultural tradition - but does this idyll really exist? Time Shift investigates.
3x6
Child Prodigies
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Nov 19, 2003
Time Shift looks at how precocious children challenge thinking about education - and whether labelling a child as "gifted" does more harm than good.
3x7
Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors saved the NHS
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Air date
Nov 26, 2003
The story of the generation of doctors who came from the Indian subcontinent to become the hidden heroes who have provided the backbone of the NHS for the last 40 years. Despite enduring .. show full overview
3x8
Jet Set
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Air date
Dec 17, 2003
Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorways before winging their way across the skies heading for yachts and exotic locations .. show full overview
3x9
Missing Believed Wiped
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Air date
Dec 29, 2003
The story of Britain's lost generation of TV entertainment, from the golden age of light entertainment in the 1950s, via the "sacrilegious" tape erasing of the 1960s and 1970s, to recent lucky finds.
3x10
Prog Rock
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Air date
Jan 19, 2004
A look back to the years when progressive rock ruled the universe, with bands such as Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson filling stadia with their grandiose stage shows. .. show full overview
3x11
Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer
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Feb 09, 2004
The PC has shrunk in size, but grown in power - Time Shift charts its evolution. Contributors include Sir Clive Sinclair.
3x12
Whistleblowers
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Air date
Mar 02, 2004
Until the 1980s Whitehall was able to use the Official Secrets Act to suppress information it didn't want disclosed. Time Shift recalls those who spoke out on stories the Government did not want to be told.
3x13 Season finale
Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame
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Air date
Mar 04, 2004
A look at the decisive moments of the latter 20th century through the eyes of the late Charles Wheeler. One of journalism's most dedicated yet modest professionals, Wheeler was at the .. show full overview

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