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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.
Episode 9 : Disappearing Dad
June. 29,2010
Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be depicted as marginal, loopy or entirely absent.
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Episode 8 : Bread: A Loaf Affair
March. 24,2010
Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary experts began to trumpet the virtues of brown.
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Episode 7 : Clement Freud: In His Own Words
December. 22,2009
Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
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Episode 6 : Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
December. 22,2009
A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, including Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine.
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Episode 5 : How to Win at Chess
December. 21,2009
In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from opening gambit to checkmate.
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Episode 4 : The Last Days of the Liners
November. 03,2009
Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.
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Episode 3 : The Men Who Built the Liners
October. 29,2009
Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.
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Episode 2 : The Golden Age of Liners
October. 22,2009
Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant.
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Episode 1 : Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
April. 03,2009
Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis.
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