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Timeshift - Episode Guide

Season 1

Car Crazy

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2003

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Gurus

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2003

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Season 2

Tyneside

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jun 12, 2003

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Season 3

Prog Rock

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2004

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Season 4

Art School

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jun 19, 2004

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Rosenthal

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jul 18, 2004

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Red Robbo

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2005

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Season 5

Star Men

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2005

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Season 6

Season 7

Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner

Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Dec 23, 2007

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Documentary about the history and tradition of the British Christmas dinner and the role it still plays in a Britain of different faiths, food fads and health concerns 

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Season 9

The Last Days of the Liners

Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2009

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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.

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution

Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2012

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The Robert Winston-narrated mini-series concludes with the story of hospitals. At the beginning of the 20th century these were forbidding places very much to be avoided - a last resort for the destitute rather than places you would go to get better. Using unique archive footage from an era when infectious disease was virtually untreatable and powerful first-hand accounts from patients, doctors and nurses, the programme explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern centre of medicine.

Klezmer

Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2012

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Season 13

Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain

Episode: 13x03 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2013

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It is said that the average woman gets through around 30 hairstyles in a lifetime, with some changing their look entirely every 15 months. Timeshift takes a loving and sometimes horrified look back at the iconic hairdos and 'must have' haircuts that both men and women in Britain have flirted with over the past 60 years. And it's some journey... from the meringue-like confections of Raymond 'Teasy Weasy' via the geometric 'bob' cuts of Vidal Sassoon, stopping off to take in the 'big hair' heyday of bouffants and beehives, and not forgetting the mullet, the feather cut and the ultimate 'bad hair day' look of 1970s perms. Our hair is the one part of our identity we can change in an instant and which speaks volumes about who we are, where we've come from and where we're going. Today, young women are revisiting hair fashions of an earlier generation - big hair and blowdrying are back in demand, whilst many young men sport Edwardian 'peaky blinder' short back and sides.

Season 14

Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

Episode: 14x02 | Airdate: Jul 28, 2014

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If you think Britain has recently been on the end of some of the worst floods and storms ever experienced, think again. So says solar scientist Dr Lucie Green, as she takes a journey back through our most turbulent and dramatic weather history. She finds an 18th-century storm surge that killed over a thousand people working in open Somerset fields, a hurricane that drowned a fifth of the British Navy and winters so bitter that the country came close to total shutdown. But she also explores how our reactions to killer storms and cruel winters helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict - and protect ourselves from - the worst extremes.

Season 15

Season 16

Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built

Episode: 16x01 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2016

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2016 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the Severn Bridge, which completed the motorway link between England and Wales. Timeshift tells the inside story of the design and construction of 'the most perfect suspension bridge in the world', and how its unique slim-line structure arose by accident. 

Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks

Episode: 16x02 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2016

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For generations, Britain's docks in cities like Liverpool, London and Cardiff were our commercial portals to the world but, as Timeshift shows, they were so much more. Docks were gateways for the arrival of new sounds, styles and cultures to the British Isles. But the docks have also been in the front line of traumatic economic changes that have forced their transformation in the 21st century into clean, contemporary hubs for leisure and the arts. Narrated by Sue Johnston.

Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

Episode: 16x03 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2016

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Timeshift charts the evolution of the British postage stamp and examines how these sticky little labels became a national obsession. Like many of us, writer and presenter Andrew Martin collected stamps when he was young, and now he returns to that lost world to unpeel the history of iconic stamps like the Penny Black and the Blue Mauritius, study famous collectors like King George V and the enigmatic Count Phillip de Ferrary, and to meet present-day philatelists at a stamp club.

Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop

Episode: 16x04 | Airdate: Dec 19, 2016

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Journalist Babita Sharma, the daughter of shopkeepers, explores the growing and shifting fortunes of the corner shop to discover why this unsung hero has been at the centre of ordinary lives for more than 70 years. The corner shop has always been there for us, it's a British institution. It was on the frontline of what was happening in society from the '40s to the noughties. It saved our bacon during World War II and it has become a rite of passage for new immigrants. With contributions from comedian Sanjeev Singh Kholi and actor Nitin Ganatrathis, the film uses the shop as a way to explore the social fabric of Britain - from economic change to immigration. The death of the corner shop has been predicted many times - but still it soldiers on. So just how has it managed to survive?

Season 17

Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car

Episode: 17x01 | Airdate: Apr 3, 2017

Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car

Exploring the British experience of family cars, from the Morris Minor to the Ford Cortina, the VW Golf to the Volvo estate, school runs to family holidays.

Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service

Episode: 17x02 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2017

Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service

Timeshift looks back on nearly two centuries of British firefighting, and explores how major incidents and the evolution of equipment from manual pumps to motorised fire engines have helped forge the modern fire service.

Dial "B" for Britain: The Story of the Landline

Episode: 17x03 | Airdate: Apr 20, 2017

Dial "B" for Britain: The Story of the Landline

Timeshift journeys back to the age of the landline - a distant era when phones weren't pocket-sized wireless devices, but bulky objects wired into our homes and workplaces. Over the course of 100 years, a communications network was rolled out to join up Britain, bringing commercial and social change in its wake. Yet despite ongoing technical innovation, the phone service often struggled to meet demand. From the speaking clock to the Trimphone, the first public call boxes to the Post Office Tower, this is the story of how Britain got connected, told by the operators and engineers themselves, and featuring rarely seen archive footage.

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