Timeshift

1. MPs on the Box

Time Shift looks at how satirists have portrayed politicians in such televisi...

2. Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe

Sixty years ago, postwar Europe was seen as a dirty, chaotic place where you ...

3. England Away

Time Shift examines the history of English football fans travelling to Europe...

4. Court on Camera

A member of OJ Simpson's "dream team", plus the lawyer who defended nanny Lou...

5. Apes in Hollywood

Since King Kong broke box office records, apes have been big business. Time S...

6. Star Men

Adam Hart-Davis explores the world of Britain's 40,000 amateur astronomers. W...

7. Black and White Minstrels Revisited

Time Shift takes a look at the now notorious show, whose blacked-up singing a...

8. Too Much, Too Young

Time Shift charts the devastating effect on children - some as young as five ...

9. The Jitterbug Years

Documentary recalling the social revolution which swept across Britain from 1...

10. Play It Again

Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name'...

11. The Battle for the Ashes

The changing sporting fortunes of England and Australia as recounted in this ...

12. The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith

Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical La...

13. The Third Programme: High Culture for All in Post-War Britain

Documentary about the birth of the BBC's Third Programme (which later became ...

14. The Lost Road: Overland to Singapore

In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded ...

15. A Study in Sherlock

The history of Sherlock Holmes.

16. Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes

Time Shift presents clips of the strangest Sherlocks, with pastiche and parod...

17. Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now

Robert Lindsay and Miranda Richardson guest in Time Shift's profile of the TV...

18. The British Way of Death

Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has ...

19. Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama

Jimmy McGovern and Ken Loach are among those reflecting on left-wing drama of...

20. Rude Britannia

While the British are known for their politeness, there have always been a no...

21. The Sun and the Moon

A quirky Time Shift compilation of TV appearances by these two heavenly bodie...

22. Pay Attention, Britain! The Story of Public Information Films

How the Central Office of Information developed its tone and style in order t...