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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.
Family Ties
On the Wrong Side of the Royal Blanket
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
1/6 docu series in which people investigate family secrets. Tales of a royal connection persist in Alison PIERCE’s family; was her great-great- grandmother’s illegitimate child the result of a royal mishap?
Family Ties
Anthony and Zoran’s Big Adventure
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
As a small boy, Anthony loved the war-time stories his Serbian grandfather used to tell about joining the Serbian resistance and escaping to Britain. Sixty years on, Zoran has sadly passed away - but Anthony...
Family Ties
Flesh and Blood
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
All Ron has ever wanted was a brother or sister. Abandoned by his mother as a baby and adopted at a very young age, he has built his own family around him - but still longs for the part of his family he...
Family Ties
The Man from Mars
- Broadcast
- 2006 (26 mins)
Doc series in which people investigate family secrets. Phil STEIN’s father was abandoned as a child & himself abandoned his own family in 1962. Recently reunited, Phil takes his father to confront & try to...