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Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Ambition
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War,...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Pit
- Broadcast
- 2009 (28 mins)
In the 1980s while most pits in Britain faced closure one pit opened up not as a mine but as a museum. This is the story of a pit that defines Britain’s painful leap from an industrial to a post-industrial...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Street
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
7/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Often fractious, never dull, Brick Lane in London, encapsulates everything that 21st Century multicultural Britain...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Market
- Broadcast
- 2009 (26 mins)
4/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. This edition explains the battle for Covent Garden Market and how its residents and workers took on the planners and won.
Saving Britain’s Past
The Crofters
- Broadcast
- 2009 (30 mins)
6/7 doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF on the conservation movement in Britain. The struggle to end private land ownership has raised new problems for ppl of Assynt as they attempt to develop one of the most beautiful...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Country House
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
3/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Exploring the decline of the country house and its fight for survival. Focuses on Eastnor Castle country house in...
Saving Britain’s Past
The Streets In The Sky
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
2/7 doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF on the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. Park Hill, Sheffield - a pioneering public housing project in the 1950s, fell into decline in the 1970s, listed in the 1990s,...
Saving Britain’s Past
The City
- Broadcast
- 2009 (29 mins)
1/7 of doc pres by Tom DYCKHOFF about the conservation movement in Britain since WWII. When Bath was targeted by HITLER in 1942, decisions had to be made about what to protect & thus the concept of ‘listed...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 5 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we examine how the advent of the Industrial Revolution radically changed the British landscape.
From Here to Modernity
From Here to Modernity
- Broadcast
- 2001 (29 mins)
Programme three picks up the story in the 1970s, at Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in West London. By now the Modern Movement is in retreat. Against a backdrop of riots, industrial unrest and recession,...