What We Were Watching - Season 1
1 - Christmas 1988
Air Date: December 23, 2018
Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
2 - Christmas 1979
Air Date: December 23, 2019
Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
3 - Summer TV Classics
Air Date: July 29, 2020
Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer.
4 - Song and Dance Spectaculars
Air Date: November 20, 2020
Grace Dent invites you to lose yourself on a joyful journey back through the BBC archives, celebrating the broadcaster's song and dance extravaganzas of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
5 - Christmas 1995
Air Date: December 19, 2020
Grace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.
6 - Christmas 1991
Air Date: December 20, 2021
Writer and broadcaster Grace Dent takes a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1991, as she immerses herself in the sights, sounds and TV schedules of the past.
7 - Christmas 1984
Air Date: December 28, 2024
TV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives, examining all the small screen content that viewers were glued to four decades ago.