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  • The Story of Wales

    Episode Six - Wales and Britain

    Broadcast
    2012 (60 mins)

    This episode takes us through our most recent history, from our enthusiastic participation in the creation of a modern British Welfare State and the economic boom of the 40s and 50s; through the rise of...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 6 ' Reverdy Road

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two, The Secret History of Our Streets returns to six...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 1 ' Deptford High Street

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    In 1886 Charles Booth embarked on an ambitious plan to visit every one of London’s streets to record the social conditions of residents. His project took him 17 years. Once he had finished he had...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 4 ' Portland Road

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    The fourth episode features Portland Road, Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, with six’million pound homes for hedge fund managers. But when Booth visited in 1899 it was the worse slum in...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 2 ' Camberwell Grove

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    The second episode features Camberwell Grove. Today ‘The Grove’is an elegant oddity a broad, leafy street of fine Georgian houses set in the seething inner city. Through its long history ‘The Grove’...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 5 ' Arnold Circus

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two, The Secret History of Our Streets returns to six...

  • The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One

    Episode 3 ' Caledonian Road

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    The third episode features Caledonian Road, which starts next to Kings Cross station and heads north for over a mile. From its beginning, the street has been resolutely working class and when Charles Booth...

  • Timeshift

    Crime and Punishment: The Story of Corporal Punishment

    Broadcast
    2010 (59 mins)

    Timeshift lifts the veil on the taboo that is Corporal Punishment. What it reveals is a fascinating history spanning religion, the justice system, sex and education. Today it’s a subject that is almost...

  • Timeshift

    Crime and Punishment: Capital Punishment

    Broadcast
    2010 (59 mins)

    Timeshift digs into the archive to trace the extraordinary story of the ultimate sanction. At the beginning of the nineteenth century you could still be hanged in Britain for offences such as stealing a...

  • Family Ties

    Keeping Mum

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    2/6 doc series in which people investigate family secrets. When Angela was nine her mother died of leukaemia and somehow she lost contact with her maternal relatives. Now 57 she wants to track them down.