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May 26, 2014

Season 14

01. Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem

A 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.

1h 0min
May 26, 2014

02. Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

Lucie 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.

1h 0min
July 28, 2014

03. Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain

How 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.

1h 0min
December 15, 2014

04. Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

The 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.

1h 0min
January 29, 2015

05. The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail

Using 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.

1h 0min
February 24, 2015

06. Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic

How 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.

1h 0min
March 11, 2015