Season 14

TimeshiftSeason 14

2014
6 Episodes

Episodes

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S14E01

Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem

A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.

26 May 201460m
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S14E02

Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.

28 Jul 201460m
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S14E03

Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain

How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.

15 Dec 201460m
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S14E04

Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.

29 Jan 201560m
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S14E05

The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail

Using the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of public ownership in a corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail.

24 Feb 201560m
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S14E06

Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic

How postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, thanks to generations of migrants opening eateries.

11 Mar 201560m