Time Shift - Series 7
A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history
Time Shift - Series 7 - A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007
Using computerised analysis, an experiment to find out how English football has really changed in the past 50 years by comparing every aspect of the FA Cup finals of 2007 and 1957.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Archaelogy - Digging the Past
An exploration of the way archaeology has been presented on television over the past 50 years, from panel show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? to Channel 4's contemporary Time Team.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Emmylou Harris at the BBC
BBC collection of performances which traces Emmylou Harris's musical development from her first British TV appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test up to recent UK festival shows.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country
Live performance, filmed in an intimate venue, in which Emmylou Harris presents her ten rules of what makes a great country song, personally chosen from her own repertoire.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Gagging For It - TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy
Television has long looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. What makes for a sure-fire transfer? Time Shift investigates, with clips from the archive and interviews.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - How To Be a Good Prime Minister
Andrew Marr and a panel of experts assess what it takes to be a successful British premier, based on the performance of the twenty prime ministers of the 20th century.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Never Had It So Good?
Writer Colin Shindler revisits his Manchester childhood to tell his own story of 1957, the year when Harold Macmillan declared that 'most of our people have never had it so good'.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Sir Mortimer Wheeler - A Life in Ruins
Using a vast array of archive documentary footage from the Himalayas to Zimbabwe, a profile of Mortimer Wheeler, who became the public face of archaelogy for almost 40 years.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner
Documentary about the history and tradition of the British Christmas dinner and the role it still plays in a diverse Britain of different faiths, food fads and health concerns.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - The Edwardian Larder
Documentary about the first mass-produced food brands focusing on four famous products: Perrier water, Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Typhoo tea and Marmite.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man
Cultural commentator Peter York takes a look at the changing fortunes of British advertising, through the story of the personalities who led it through its highs and lows.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Watching the Russians
Beginning with the rise of Russophobia in Victorian Britain, former MI5 director general Stella Rimington explores our love-hate relationship with Russia over the past 150 years.
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Time Shift - Series 7 - Whatever Happened to Radio 2?
An affectionate celebration of the unusual and much-loved corners of 88-91FM, of the fans and of those who continue to broadcast to them.
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