Reel History of Britain — Season 1, Episode 17: Streets in the Sky
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 20 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
This episode of Reel History comes from the Park Hill Estate in Sheffield as we look at Housing redevelopment in the 1960s. Park Hill and estates like it were seen as the solution to over crowding caused by a baby boom and rising rates of immigration after the Second World War but in reality they might have been good in the short-term but quickly declined and most become an eyesore. Park Hill was once labelled the worst estate in Europe but is now being redeveloped again. Melvyn meets some ex- residents to find out what went wrong.
About Reel History of Britain
Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series being shown on BBC Two, presented by Melvyn Bragg and about the history of modern Britain; through the eyes of people who were there. It was shown from 5–30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary, charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years, since the advent of moving film. In each episode, Bragg goes to a different place in the UK and shows people film in a 1950s Ministry of Technology mobile cinema, then gauges their reactions and captures them on film.