Timeshift Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

MPs on the Box

Episode 2

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

Episode 3

England Away

Episode 4

Court on Camera

Episode 5

Apes in Hollywood

Episode 6

Star Men

40 mins

Episode 7

Black and White Minstrels Revisited

Episode 8

Too Much, Too Young

Episode 9

The Jitterbug Years

Episode 10

Play It Again

Episode 11

The Battle for the Ashes

Episode 12

The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith

Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government inspired them to suppress Eugene Smith's photographs of the 1950 general election.

Episode 13

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

40 mins

Documentary about the birth of the BBC's Third Programme (which later became Radio 3). From 1946, the Third Programme embodied the post-war ideal that High Culture could be brought to everyone -- a vision shared, briefly, by both Left and Right in post-war British politics.

Episode 14

The Lost Road: Overland to Singapore

Episode 15

A Study in Sherlock

40 mins

The history of Sherlock Holmes.

Episode 16

Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes

Episode 17

Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now

39 mins

Episode 18

The British Way of Death

Episode 19

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

Episode 20

Rude Britannia

While the British are known for their politeness, there have always been a notable few who have stood out for their plain-speaking. This trawls the archives to show prime examples.

Episode 21

The Sun and the Moon

Episode 22

Pay Attention, Britain! The Story of Public Information Films

40 mins

How the Central Office of Information developed its tone and style in order to keep up the flow of public information films from the Second World War onwards.