Time Shift - Series 9
A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history
Time Shift - Series 9 - Bread: A Loaf Affair
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - Disappearing Dad
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - How to Win at Chess
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - The Golden Age of Liners
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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Time Shift - Series 9 - The Last Days of the Liners
Documentary telling how, in the years following WWII and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.
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Time Shift - Series 9 - The Men Who Built the Liners
Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.
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