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The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 3 ' The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
At the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour lie the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen and their families in 1809. Tethered to the sea and cut off from the city the squares developed their own...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 1 ' The Moray Estate, Edinburgh
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
In Edinburgh’s ancient New Town ' a street unlike anywhere else in Britain, with an architecture and a people seemingly unchanged over almost 200 years. The last bastion of the British Empire. A group of...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 2 ' Duke Street, Glasgow
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
Duke Street is Britain’s longest street, running through the heart of Glasgow’s East End. Elegant Victorian tenement blocks line the road to the South. Yet if the City’s planners had had their way,...
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
The working class worked. It’s right there on the tin. From the dark days of the industrial revolution to the hairnets and rubber gloves of the factory line, it was the workers that made Britain great. But...
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain
Episode Two
- Broadcast
- 2013 (58 mins)
Work may have been at the heart of working class life, but once we clocked off- whoa, it was a different world! From the streets where we lived, to our holidays, not to mention our nights on the town, this...
The Story of Wales
Episode One: The Makings of Wales
- Broadcast
- 2012 (60 mins)
We begin with a modern maternity hospital, Paviland and a big statement of intent for the whole series. Then we explore our Celtic (or is it?) pre-history. We show the huge scale of maritime trade and the...
The Story of Wales
Episode Two - Power Struggles
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
This second episode drives us through from the formation of the major Welsh kingdoms to the defeat of Owain Glyndwr. The Welsh are under attack from Vikings and Saxons, constantly realigning and making...
The Story of Wales
Episode Three - England and Wales
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
We begin with a fallen crown caught on a thorn bush in a bloody battlefield. The English throne is ours. We trace the fortunes of the Tudors of Penmynydd. They do important things for and to Wales. Henry...
The Story of Wales
Episode Four - Furnace of Change
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
It’s one of the most remarkable comebacks in British history. Wales is transformed from a backwater into a cauldron of economic and political activity. The country is energised and enriched. The process is...
The Story of Wales
Episode Five - A New Beginning
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
From the 1860s to the Second World War, Wales is shaped into the country of popular memory. We begin with Liberal Wales, Welsh-speaking, chapel-going. Progress, education is on the agenda. The people’s...