Timeshift - Season 16

Timeshift - Season 16

Season 16

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Episodes5
DatesOct 19, 2016 - Feb 7, 2017
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Episodes

Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built
Season 16Episode 160 min

Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built

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. 

Oct 19, 2016
Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks
Season 16Episode 260 min

Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks

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.

Oct 26, 2016
Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps
Season 16Episode 360 min

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

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.

Nov 14, 2016
Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop
Season 16Episode 460 min

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

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?

Dec 19, 2016
Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British
Season 16Episode 560 min

Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British

Timeshift ventures inside places of sporting achievement, scientific endeavour and male obsession - the lofts of pigeon fanciers - to tell the story of a remarkable bird.
Feb 7, 2017

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