Timeshift - Season 9

Timeshift - Season 9

Season 9

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Episodes9
DatesApr 30, 2009 - Jun 29, 2010
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Episodes

Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
Season 9Episode 160 min

Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science

Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis.
Apr 30, 2009
The Golden Age of Liners
Season 9Episode 260 min

The Golden Age of Liners

Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant.
Oct 22, 2009
The Men Who Built the Liners
Season 9Episode 360 min

The Men Who Built the Liners

Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.
Oct 29, 2009
The Last Days of the Liners
Season 9Episode 460 min

The Last Days of the Liners

Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.

Nov 3, 2009
How to Win at Chess
Season 9Episode 560 min

How to Win at Chess

In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from opening gambit to checkmate.
Dec 21, 2009
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Season 9Episode 660 min

Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, including Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine.
Dec 22, 2009
Clement Freud: In His Own Words
Season 9Episode 760 min

Clement Freud: In His Own Words

Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
Dec 22, 2009
Bread: A Loaf Affair
Season 9Episode 860 min

Bread: A Loaf Affair

Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary experts began to trumpet the virtues of brown.
Mar 24, 2010
Disappearing Dad
Season 9Episode 960 min

Disappearing Dad

Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be depicted as marginal, loopy or entirely absent.
Jun 29, 2010

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