Season 9
9 episodes · Apr 3, 2009
0/9 watched
Swipe a row to mark watched · long-press to mark up to there
- S9E1
Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
Apr 3, 200960mDocumentary 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.
- S9E2
The Golden Age of Liners
Oct 22, 200960mPaul 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.
- S9E3
The Men Who Built the Liners
Oct 29, 200960mDocumentary 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.
- S9E4
The Last Days of the Liners
Nov 3, 200960mDocumentary 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.
- S9E5
How to Win at Chess
Dec 21, 200960mIn 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.
- S9E6
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Dec 22, 200960mA 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.
S9E7Clement Freud: In His Own Words
Dec 22, 200960mDocumentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
- S9E8
Bread: A Loaf Affair
Mar 24, 201060mDocumentary 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.
- S9E9
Disappearing Dad
Jun 29, 201060mNovelist 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.