Season 9 (2009)

Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
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April 3, 2009 • 1h

Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quo...Read more

The Golden Age of Liners
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October 22, 2009 • 1h

Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why t...Read more

The Men Who Built the Liners
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October 29, 2009 • 1h

Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabe...Read more

The Last Days of the Liners
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November 3, 2009 • 1h

Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed...Read more

How to Win at Chess
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December 21, 2009 • 1h

In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from ...Read more

Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
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December 22, 2009 • 1h

A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, inclu...Read more

Clement Freud: In His Own Words
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December 22, 2009 • 1h

Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and auth...Read more

Bread: A Loaf Affair
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March 24, 2010 • 1h

Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary ex...Read more

Disappearing Dad
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June 29, 2010 • 1h

Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be dep...Read more