Time Shift - Series 6
A series of documentaries exploring British culture
Time Shift - Series 6 - Carry On Campus
Nigel Planer narrates a documentary taking a fond look at the growing pains of the university through the eyes of the writers who immortalised it in the campus novel.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Creating Life on Mars
In conversation with writer and broadcaster Andrew Collins, the creators of the time-travel cop show Life on Mars reveal the story behind the series.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Goodbye Children Everywhere
Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither seen nor heard.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Hey Mr DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey
David Hepworth chronicles the history of the disc jockey. The DJ has often been a neglected profession but today's globe-trotting jocks enjoy superstar status.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Live on the Night
Bill Nighy recalls the early days of TV drama when programmes were live and cast and crew had to get it right on the night. Contributors include Brian Blessed and Trudi Goodwin.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Machine Men
Documentary looking at the history of robots, androids and cyborgs in both fact and fiction. Contributors include sci-fi visionary Brian Aldiss and writer Kim Newman.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide
Viewer's guide to entering another dimension, featuring some of TV and cinema's best-known alternate universes, from Star Trek to Sliders, from Buffy to Doctor Who.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Spy Stories - British Espionage in Fact and Fiction
Bill Nighy narrates a documentary telling the story of the long and often extraordinary relationship between fact and fiction in the mysterious world of British espionage.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold
After The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted it to make such an effective challenge to conventional history.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Transylvania Babylon
A comic exploration of the cult of Dracula, from Bela Lugosi to bloodsucking bikes, with a Mexican tag-wrestling version thrown in for good measure.
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Time Shift - Series 6 - Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health
Documentary looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the UK, and if it's the end for traditions and rituals which go back centuries.
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