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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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.

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  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...

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  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...

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  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,...

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  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...

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  A History of Christianity

  Episode 6 - God In The Dock

  Broadcast

  2009 (59 mins)

  6/6 documentary series presented by Professor Diarmaid Macculloch on the history of Christianity. He traces the path of religious doubt & scepticism by way of the Western Front and the Holocaust.

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