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Timewatch
The Mystery of the Headless Romans
- Broadcast
- 2006 (49 mins)
Documentary on the discovery of 30 decapitated Roman bodies in York sparked an intense archaeological investigation. Who were these men, & what happened to them? A detective story that goes to the heart of...
Timewatch
Crusaders’ Lost Fort
- Broadcast
- 2006 (48 mins)
In 1179 the Crusaders built a supposedly impregnable fortress at a crossing of the Jordan called Jacob’s Ford. Within a year the castle was taken in a siege lasting five days. Dr Thomas Asbridge...
The Hidden Slave Trail
The Hidden Slave Trail
- Broadcast
- 2006 (31 mins)
Philippa’s fascination with the untold slavery trail began after writing her novel "A Respectable Trade" about the lucrative slave trade based in Bristol. Philippa journeys from the North West to North...
Nation on Film Series Two
Kearton’s Wildlife
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how a farmer’s son from Yorkshire became a pioneer of wildlife film-making and star of the silver screen. Cherry Kearton travelled the world from the 1920’s in order to...
Nation on Film Series Two
Women’s Football
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how the rise and fall of women’s football was captured on film. Professional and amatueur archive reveals how a group of World War 1 munitions workers from Preston became...
Nation on Film Series One
Selling Cars
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
The story of how film sold the car from sex to speed to safety from 1900’s till the very first television car advert using archive footage & interviews. Narrated by Sir David JASON.
Nation on Film Series Two
Package Holidays
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how film was used to promote and record package-tour holidays in the 1960’s. As the package break was established, tour operators made promotional films to sell the sun,...
Nation on Film Series Two
Flying With Cobham
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
5/6 in history documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history captured on film over the last 100 years. David JASON narrates the story of trail-blazing pilot Alan COBHAM’s mission to get Britons...
Nation on Film Series Two
The Ramsden Collection
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
The story of a newly-discovered amateur archive that sheds new light on life in post-war Britain. For 20 years, husband and wife, Betty and Cyril Ramsden, recorded the world around them. They captured...
Nation on Film Series One
Body Beautiful
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
Archive docu series charts 20C British social history. Prog re how nation tried to improve its health & fitness in the interwar years, & how people were influenced by what they saw & ate & how they exercised.
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