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Season 14

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Broadcast date

26-05-2014 • 6 episodes

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Episodes of this season

1. Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem

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.

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2. Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

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.

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3. Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain

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.

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4. Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

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.

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5. The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail

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.

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6. Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic

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.

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