Timeshift

Season 9

2009 · 9 episodes · 9h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science

   3 Apr 2009 · 60 min

   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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   2. The Golden Age of Liners

   22 Oct 2009 · 60 min

   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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   3. The Men Who Built the Liners

   29 Oct 2009 · 60 min

   Documentary 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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   4. The Last Days of the Liners

   3 Nov 2009 · 60 min

   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.

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   5. How to Win at Chess

   21 Dec 2009 · 60 min

   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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   6. Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

   22 Dec 2009 · 60 min

   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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   7. Clement Freud: In His Own Words

   22 Dec 2009 · 60 min

   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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   8. Bread: A Loaf Affair

   24 Mar 2010 · 60 min

   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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   9. Disappearing Dad

   29 Jun 2010 · 60 min

   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.