Timeshift - Season 14
1 - Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
Air Date: May 26, 2014
A look back at the bank holiday 'battles of the beaches', when hundreds of mods and rockers flocked to seaside resorts on scooters and motorbikes in search of thrills and spills.
2 - Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
Air Date: July 28, 2014
Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.
3 - Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
Air Date: December 15, 2014
How a traditional working-class pub game became a national obsession during the 1970s and 80s, and how television played a key role in elevating its players into household names.
4 - Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
Air Date: January 29, 2015
The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.
5 - The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
Air Date: February 24, 2015
Using the British Transport Films archive, Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of public ownership in a corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail.
6 - Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
Air Date: March 11, 2015
How postwar Britain went from a place where eating out was more of a chore than a pleasure to a nation of food adventurers, thanks to generations of migrants opening eateries.