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Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
Episode 97 : Episode 97
January. 01,0001
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Episode 9 : The Human Factor
December. 04,1986
Film 1: How a Bulgarian peasant farmer stumbled across the largest Thracian treasure ever discovered - more than 160 silver bowls and jugs, found while digging an irrigation ditch.
THE MAN WHO MADE HISTORY: How an Italian who 'imitated the past' has become known as one of the greatest forgers of all time.
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Episode 7 : The Price of the Past
October. 09,1986
Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders:
- A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rorke's Drift more than 100 years ago
- Four pages from a medieval illuminated manuscript about the life of Saint Thomas Beckett, changing hands for the first time in nearly 500 years
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