May 19, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift looks at how satirists have portrayed politicians in such television creations as Yes Minister Spitting Image and The New Statesman.
May 31, 2005 • 1h
Sixty years ago, postwar Europe was seen as a dirty, chaotic place where you couldn't drink the water. Now Brits dream of restorin...Read more
May 31, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift examines the history of English football fans travelling to Europe, and the attendant sub-culture of drinking and violence.
July 16, 2005 • 1h
A member of OJ Simpson's "dream team", plus the lawyer who defended nanny Louise Woodward , are among contributors to Time Shift's...Read more
July 17, 2005 • 1h
Since King Kong broke box office records, apes have been big business. Time Shift takes a wry look at a neglected genre, from Tarz...Read more
August 6, 2005 • 1h
Adam Hart-Davis explores the world of Britain's 40,000 amateur astronomers. While the last century saw amateurs eclipsed by high t...Read more
August 8, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift takes a look at the now notorious show, whose blacked-up singing and dancing routines ruled the weekend schedules for 21 years.
September 9, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift charts the devastating effect on children - some as young as five - who care for infirm parents
October 1, 2005 • 1h
Documentary recalling the social revolution which swept across Britain from 1946. A new dance craze, the Jitterbug, captured the m...Read more
October 4, 2005 • 1h
Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name's the Same and Ask Your Dad make their debuts during ...Read more
October 20, 2005 • 1h
The changing sporting fortunes of England and Australia as recounted in this Time Shift documentary.
October 25, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift investigates how Life magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government inspired them to suppress photographs...Read more
October 25, 2005 • 1h
Francine Stock narrates the story of the Third Programme, a high-culture radio show launched in 1946, focusing on how the series i...Read more
October 30, 2005 • 1h
In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded by six Oxbridge undergraduates to give some money & f...Read more
December 24, 2005 • 1h
Documentary explores the continuing appeal of Sherlock Holmes through his various screen incarnations, from early silent films thr...Read more
December 26, 2005 • 1h
Time Shift presents clips of the strangest Sherlocks, with pastiche and parody from Roland Rat to John Cleese.
January 15, 2006 • 1h
Robert Lindsay and Miranda Richardson guest in Time Shift's profile of the TV dramatist.
February 6, 2006 • 1h
Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has acquired a new spirit of informality. Today's departe...Read more
February 8, 2006 • 1h
Jimmy McGovern and Ken Loach are among those reflecting on left-wing drama of the 1960s and 70s, looking at works as diverse as Ta...Read more
February 13, 2006 • 1h
From Pygmalion to Paxman, Time Shift traces the cult of plain-speaking. Narrated by Tamsin Greig.
March 6, 2006 • 1h
A quirky Time Shift compilation of TV appearances by these two heavenly bodies, including Patrick Moore 's meeting with a vicar wh...Read more
March 30, 2006 • 1h
Marking 60 years of the Central Office of Information, Time Shift celebrates PIFs, from HIV awareness to "Charley Says".