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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.
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Episode 1 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
Release Date: 2009-04-03Documentary 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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Episode 2 - The Golden Age of Liners
Release Date: 2009-10-22Paul 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 3 - The Men Who Built the Liners
Release Date: 2009-10-29Documentary 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 4 - The Last Days of the Liners
Release Date: 2009-11-03Documentary 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 5 - How to Win at Chess
Release Date: 2009-12-21In 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 6 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Release Date: 2009-12-22A 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 7 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words
Release Date: 2009-12-22Documentary 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 8 - Bread: A Loaf Affair
Release Date: 2010-03-24Documentary 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 9 - Disappearing Dad
Release Date: 2010-06-29Novelist 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.