Seasons and episodes
17
Season 17 April 03, 2017
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17 - 1Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car April 03, 2017 -
17 - 2Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service April 13, 2017 -
17 - 3Dial B for Britain: The Story of the Landline April 20, 2017
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Season 16 October 19, 2016
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16 - 1Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built October 19, 2016 -
16 - 2Sailors, Ships and Stevedores: The Story of British Docks October 26, 2016 -
16 - 3Penny Blacks & Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps November 14, 2016 -
16 - 4Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop December 19, 2016 -
16 - 5Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British February 07, 2017
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Season 15 September 02, 2015
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15 - 1The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys September 02, 2015 -
15 - 2A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story September 09, 2015
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15 - 3The Engine That Powers the World September 23, 2015
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15 - 4The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets October 20, 2015
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15 - 5Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC October 28, 2015
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15 - 6
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Season 14 May 26, 2014
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14 - 1Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem May 26, 2014
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14 - 2
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14 - 3Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain December 15, 2014
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14 - 4Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest January 29, 2015
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14 - 5The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail February 24, 2015
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14 - 6Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic March 11, 2015
13
Season 13 October 28, 2013
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13 - 1Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes October 28, 2013
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13 - 2When Coal Was King November 04, 2013
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13 - 3Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain November 13, 2013 -
13 - 4A Day at the Zoo November 20, 2013
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13 - 5The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs that Got Britain Reading December 22, 2013
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13 - 6Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather January 08, 2014
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13 - 7How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective January 12, 2014
12
Season 12 September 24, 2012
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12 - 1Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery September 24, 2012
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12 - 2Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution October 01, 2012
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12 - 3Klezmer October 14, 2012
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12 - 4Magnificent Machines: The Golden Age of the British Sports Car October 08, 2012
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12 - 5The British Army of the Rhine October 22, 2012
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12 - 6When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies December 13, 2012
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12 - 7The Joy of (Train) Sets January 23, 2013
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12 - 8Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo January 30, 2013
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12 - 9Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain February 24, 2013
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12 - 10How To Be A Lady: An Elegant History March 26, 2013
11
Season 11 April 03, 2011
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11 - 1Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice April 03, 2011
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11 - 2Hotel Deluxe June 29, 2011
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11 - 3All the Fun of the Fair August 02, 2011
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11 - 4When the Circus Comes to Town August 09, 2011
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11 - 5The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley September 15, 2011 -
11 - 6Dear Censor - The secret archive of the British Board of Film Classification September 29, 2011
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11 - 7Antarctica - Of Ice and Men November 03, 2011 -
11 - 8The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire December 05, 2011 -
11 - 9Epic: A Cast of Thousands! December 24, 2011 -
11 - 10The Smoking Years January 04, 2012 -
11 - 11The Rules of Drinking January 11, 2012
10
Season 10 September 08, 2010
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10 - 1The North on a Plate September 08, 2010
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10 - 21960: The Year of the North September 14, 2010
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10 - 3When Britain Went Wild October 05, 2010
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10 - 4Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction December 20, 2010
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10 - 5Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction December 27, 2010
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10 - 6The Golden Age of Coach Travel January 05, 2011
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10 - 7The Modern Age of the Coach January 12, 2011
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10 - 8Crime and Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment April 04, 2011
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10 - 9Crime and Punishment - The Story of Capital Punishment April 05, 2011
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Season 9 April 03, 2009
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9 - 1Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science April 03, 2009
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9 - 2The Golden Age of Liners October 22, 2009
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9 - 3The Men Who Built the Liners October 29, 2009
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9 - 4The Last Days of the Liners November 03, 2009
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9 - 5How to Win at Chess December 21, 2009
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9 - 6Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films December 22, 2009
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9 - 7Clement Freud: In His Own Words December 22, 2009 -
9 - 8Bread: A Loaf Affair March 24, 2010
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9 - 9Disappearing Dad June 29, 2010
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Season 8 September 14, 2008
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8 - 1How to Be a Good President September 14, 2008
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8 - 2Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film October 09, 2008
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8 - 3Last Days of Steam October 16, 2008
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8 - 4How to Write a Mills and Boon November 02, 2008 -
8 - 5How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword November 10, 2008
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8 - 6The Comic Songbook December 22, 2008
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8 - 7Fashion versus the BBC January 22, 2009
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8 - 8The North-South Divide April 02, 2009
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Season 7 April 18, 2007
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7 - 1The Edwardian Larder April 18, 2007
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7 - 2How To Be a Good Prime Minister September 22, 2007 -
7 - 3Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy October 01, 2007
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7 - 4Whatever Happened to Radio 2? October 05, 2007
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7 - 5Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country October 12, 2007
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7 - 6Emmylou Harris at the BBC October 12, 2007
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7 - 7Archaeology - Digging the Past October 21, 2007
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7 - 8Sir Mortimer Wheeler - A Life in Ruins October 21, 2007 -
7 - 9Watching the Russians November 21, 2007
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7 - 10Never Had It So Good? December 10, 2007
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7 - 11A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 December 13, 2007 -
7 - 12Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner December 23, 2007
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7 - 13The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man March 09, 2008
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Season 6 April 01, 2006
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6 - 1Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week April 01, 2006
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6 - 2Creating 'Life on Mars' April 02, 2006
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6 - 3The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold May 01, 2006
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6 - 4Carry On Campus May 10, 2006
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6 - 5Machine Men May 13, 2006
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6 - 6Oz and Them January 16, 2007
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6 - 7Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction August 30, 2006
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6 - 8Planet Ping Pong September 11, 2006 -
6 - 9Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide November 29, 2006
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6 - 10Transylvania Babylon December 28, 2006
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6 - 11The New Middle Classes March 04, 2007
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6 - 12Rover: The Long Goodbye March 20, 2007
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6 - 13First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom March 24, 2007
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6 - 14Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health March 25, 2007
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6 - 15Goodbye Children Everywhere May 26, 2007
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Season 5 May 19, 2005
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5 - 1MPs on the Box May 19, 2005 -
5 - 2Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe May 31, 2005 -
5 - 3England Away May 31, 2005
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5 - 4Court on Camera July 16, 2005
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5 - 5Apes in Hollywood July 17, 2005 -
5 - 6Star Men August 06, 2005
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5 - 7Black and White Minstrels Revisited August 08, 2005
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5 - 8Too Much, Too Young September 09, 2005
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5 - 9The Jitterbug Years October 01, 2005
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5 - 10Play It Again October 04, 2005
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5 - 11The Battle for the Ashes October 20, 2005
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5 - 12The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith October 25, 2005 -
5 - 13The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain October 25, 2005 -
5 - 14Lost Road: Overland To Singapore October 30, 2005
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5 - 15A Study in Sherlock December 24, 2005
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5 - 16Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes December 26, 2005 -
5 - 17Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now January 15, 2006 -
5 - 18The British Way of Death February 06, 2006
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5 - 19Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama February 08, 2006
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5 - 20Rude Britannia February 13, 2006
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5 - 21The Sun and the Moon March 06, 2006
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5 - 22Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films March 30, 2006
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Season 4 June 19, 2004
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4 - 1Art School June 19, 2004 -
4 - 2Fantasy Sixties July 13, 2004 -
4 - 3Jack Rosenthal: The Voice of Television Drama July 18, 2004
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4 - 4The Carnival Years August 28, 2004
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4 - 5The History of Pubs October 07, 2004 -
4 - 6Live on the Night: The Story of Live TV Drama October 14, 2004 -
4 - 7New Age Travellers October 21, 2004 -
4 - 8Drugs in Sport October 28, 2004 -
4 - 9Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey November 04, 2004 -
4 - 10British Space Race November 16, 2004 -
4 - 11Pile It High, Sell It Cheap January 20, 2005 -
4 - 12Red Robbo February 02, 2005 -
4 - 13Gambling Britain February 03, 2005 -
4 - 14The Story of Circus February 10, 2005 -
4 - 15Pop Svengalis February 22, 2005 -
4 - 16Conchies: Questions of Conscience May 01, 2005 -
4 - 17Kenneth Tynan March 02, 2005 -
4 - 18Jewish Entertainers March 15, 2005 -
4 - 19Alan Plater: Hearing the Music March 26, 2005 -
4 - 20Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban April 04, 2005 -
4 - 21Russel T. Davis: Unscripted April 11, 2005
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Season 3 October 01, 2003
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3 - 1Cold War Kids October 01, 2003
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3 - 2The Kneale Tapes October 15, 2003
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3 - 3James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck October 22, 2003
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3 - 4Apocalypse Now… and Then October 29, 2003 -
3 - 5The Lie of the Land November 05, 2003 -
3 - 6Child Prodigies November 19, 2003
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3 - 7Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors saved the NHS November 30, 2003
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3 - 8The Jet Set December 17, 2003
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3 - 9Missing Believed Wiped December 29, 2003
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3 - 10Prog Rock January 19, 2004
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3 - 11Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer February 09, 2004 -
3 - 12Whistleblowers March 02, 2004 -
3 - 13Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame March 04, 2004
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Season 2 May 05, 2003
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2 - 1The Great British Seaside Holiday May 05, 2003 -
2 - 2Children's News May 18, 2003
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2 - 3Watching You May 22, 2003
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2 - 4TV and Charity June 05, 2003 -
2 - 5Tyneside June 12, 2003 -
2 - 6Political Thrillers: Plays of State June 15, 2003 -
2 - 7High Rise Dreams June 19, 2003 -
2 - 8Vicars: Dearly Beloved? July 03, 2003 -
2 - 9Footballers’ Lives September 21, 2003 -
2 - 10Six Days to Saturday September 21, 2003
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Season 1 October 10, 2002
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1 - 1The Grunwick Strike October 10, 2002 -
1 - 2The Cannabis Years October 12, 2002 -
1 - 3The Writer's Trade October 19, 2002 -
1 - 4The Sailing Sixties November 09, 2002 -
1 - 5Attenborough: The Controller Years November 16, 2002 -
1 - 6he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man November 30, 2002 -
1 - 7A Shadow Over Europe December 03, 2002 -
1 - 8Whatever Happened to the Working Class? February 11, 2003 -
1 - 9Notting Hill Riots January 18, 2003
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1 - 10What Have the Germans Done for Us? February 16, 2003
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1 - 11Greenham Common Changed My Life February 23, 2003
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1 - 12Car Crazy March 02, 2003 -
1 - 13The Magic Roundabout Story March 16, 2003
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1 - 14Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream March 24, 2003
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1 - 15Gurus March 30, 2003 -
1 - 16A Brief Interlude February 16, 2003
Overview
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
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