Season 4 (1985)

Episode 1
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January 9, 1985 • 50m

REAGAN'S COWBOYS: Why have successive presidents celebrated the cowboy as all-American hero? THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS DEAD: But did...Read more

Episode 2
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January 30, 1985 • 50m

TAFF VALE: In 1900 the railway workers of Taff Vale embarked on a strike which has political implications to this day. Timewatch e...Read more

Special: The Age of Charles II
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February 6, 1985 • 50m

'Let not poor Nellie starve.' With those words Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', died 300 years ago. Of all British sovereigns, thi...Read more

Episode 4
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March 6, 1985 • 50m

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tension...Read more

Episode 5
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April 3, 1985 • 1h

THE UNUSED WEAPON: By 1945 the Allies and the Nazis had stockpiled five times more chemical weapons than had been used throughout ...Read more

The Battle for Berlin
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May 8, 1985 • 55m

In April 1945, British and American troops were sweeping across Western Germany. Charles Wheeler was among them. They stopped 50 m...Read more

Aspects of War
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October 10, 1985 • 50m

This month's programme comes from the centre of Oxford where Peter France introduces three stories which have their roots deep in ...Read more

Elements of Justice
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November 7, 1985 • 50m

SUMMER OF THE HANGING JUDGE: An examination of the life and times of Judge George Jeffreys 300 years after he presided over the in...Read more

Magic Circles
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December 5, 1985 • 50m

Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex r...Read more

Episode 97
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January 1, 1970

Episode 97 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 98
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January 1, 1970

Episode 98 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 99
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January 1, 1970

Episode 99 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970