Timeshift — Season 1, Episode 16: A Brief Interlude

Episode synopsis

A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in during technical breakdowns and gaps in the schedules. The most famous ones showed a potter's wheel, a cat playing with a ball of wool and a horse-drawn plough.

About Timeshift

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Grunwick Strike
• E2The Cannabis Years
• E3The Writer's Trade
• E4The Sailing Sixties
• E5Attenborough: The Controller Years
• E6he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
• E7A Shadow Over Europe
• E8Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
• E9Notting Hill Riots
• E10What Have the Germans Done for Us?
• E11Greenham Common Changed My Life
• E12Car Crazy