Season 14
6 episodes · May 26, 2014
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- S14E1
Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
May 26, 201460mA 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.
- S14E2
Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
Jul 28, 201460mLucie 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.
- S14E3
Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
Dec 15, 201460mHow 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.
- S14E4
Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
Jan 29, 201560mThe 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.
- S14E5
The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
Feb 24, 201560mUsing 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.
- S14E6
Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
Mar 11, 201560mHow 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.