About this season
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Episodes (6)
1. Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
Aired 26 May 2014 • 60 min
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.
2. Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
Aired 28 July 2014 • 60 min
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.
3. Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
Aired 15 December 2014 • 60 min
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.
4. Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
Aired 29 January 2015 • 60 min
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.
5. The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
Aired 24 February 2015 • 60 min
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.
6. Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
Aired 11 March 2015 • 60 min
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.