UK / C4 4 x 5 me 2 - 5 Oct Mon - Thurs 7:55pm 2000

Producer Sam Harman. Executive Producer Dele Oniya.

4 short films introduced by a virtual presenter called Tamicha Hacker looking at a project called the Black and Asian Online History Map. 

C4 / 6x30m / started 29 March 2002

Executive Producer: David Pounds

Ancient British murder mysteries are re-investigated using modern methods.

BBC2 (Timewatch) 1 x 50 me 1 May sat 8:15pm 1999

Editor Lawrence Rees. Producer Jonothan Gill.

A look at the rush for land that occurred in 1889 in Northwestern Oklahoma.

UK / BBC2 6 x 40 me 1978

Producer Stephen Peet. Director Christopher Cook.

Stories of life for the English during the life of the Raj.

Narrated by Christopher Cook.

UK / BBC2 (Timewatch) 1 x 50 me 20 Nov sat 8:05pm 1999

Producer Jonathan Gill. Editor Lawrence Rees.

The story behind the building of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

BBC2 12 x 10 me 1999  Wed Thurs 10:20pm

Executive Producer Saul Nasse.

Stories of various tools and the people who use them.

UK / BBC2 2 x 40 me 3 Apr Mon Tues 11:20pm 2000

Producer Manishe Vedhic.

Two part program with edition one looking at democracy in America followed by a debate on the subject the following evening.

UK / BBC2 6 x 40 me 2 Nov - 7 Dec Tues 9:50pm

Producer Beth Holgate

A behind the scenes look at psychotherapy specialists The Tavistock Clinic.

TALKING WITH ANIMALS

BBC1 / 4x30m / started 30 June 2002 / 8:30pm

Producer: Lizzie Bewick / Executive Producer: Bernard Walton

Examination of how animals communicate. Presented by Charlotte Uhlenbroek. 

UK / BBC 12 aug 9:25pm 1982

One of a series of eight program's looking at the Falklands War.

Presented by Brian Hanrahan.

UK / Southern 8 Aug Tues 8:40pm 1967

Producer Terry Johnston

The apathetic nature of the British public is exposed in this hidden camera show. A robbery on a jewelers shop and a kidnapping are witnessed by the public who refuse to get involved. Narrated by Peter Clark.

UK / BBC2 (Under The Sun) 1 x 60 me 8 jun Thurs 9:50pm 2000

Editor David Pearson. Director Joanne Head.

Inside the cabs of four New York cab drivers.

UK / C4 (Dispatches) 1 x 30 me 24 Feb 9:30pm 2000

Producer Sam Bagnall. Director Peter Minns.

A look at the far reaching powers of Customs & Excise VAT collectors. 

TEENAGE KICKS

C4 / 5x60m / started 6 August 2002 / 10:00pm

Director: Vicky Hamburger / Executive Producer: Liz Warner, Gillian Wilson

Series lifting the lid on today's teens and discovering what makes them tick.

UK / BBC1 / 3x60m / started 3 July 2002 / 9:00pm

Producer/Director: Judith Bunting

Documentary examining the emotional and physical changes that boys and girls go through as they change from child to adult through the turbulent period of adolescence.

ITV x 60 me Tues 10:45pm 1998

Producer Juliet Rice. Director Jilly Halferichter.

A sometimes surprising sometimes shocking look at teenage life in Britain.

UK / C4 3 x 60 me 13 - 27 Nov sat 8:00pm 1999

Producer Laura Hastings-Smith.

A look at how, since the end of the Second World War, religion has become increasingly defragmented and multi faith.

1. For God And Country

   How the 1950's saw a fall in the number of people attending church and how the arrival of large numbers of immigrants saw the emergence in Britain of different faiths.

2. Soul Searchers

The opening out of religion during the sixties and seventies.

3.Beyond Belief

The rise in Britain, of religions other than Christianity.

BBC2 (Modern Times) 1 x 50 me 22 Mar Wed 9:00pm 2000

Editor Alex Holmes Director David Harvey.

On the case with some of Britain's ever growing band of private detectives.

USA (History Channel) 1 x 60 me 2000

A look at the history of terrorism through the revolutions in France and Russia to the forming of the Irish Free State and on up to the present day. The program contained some disturbing footage.

UK / C5 11 - 12 Sept Sat / Sun Various 1999

A collection of deep sea terror based shows and films.

1. Shadow Of The Whale: Shark! 1 x 55 me

   Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, on sharks.

2. Peter Benchley's The Beast Pat 1

   Part one of the US mini series about a giant squid..

3. The Deep 1 x 40 me

   The 1977 film based on Peter Benchleys novel.

4. Wolves Of The Sea 1 x 60 me

   Producers David Parer, Elizabeth Parer-Cook

   Killer Wales narrated by David Attenborough.

5. A Shark the Size Of A Whale. 1 x 30 me

   Producers Adrian & Graham Tyte.

6. Peter Benchley's the Deep Part 2

The second and final part of the serial.

UK / BBC (fine art) 1993

Producer Denys Blakeway.

Profile of the years Margaret Thatcher spent in power.

UK / BBC2  / x 10 me 2000-2001

Producer Michael Poole.

Short essays on pop culture. Including Pokemon, Napster and Britney Spears. 

BBC2 / 1x40m / 22 February 2003

Producer: Paul Jenkins

A documentary about the making of the groundbreaking 1964 documentary series THE GREAT WAR with contributions from some of the people involved in the making of it. It preceded a re-run of the original 26-part series. 

BBC2 / 6x30m / started 26 December 2003

Series Producer: Toby Stevens

An archive clips show that picks a week from the past and shows clips from programmes that were shown during that particular week with pages taken from the week's Radio Times and TV Times. The week's featured were all important in television terms - such as a Royal wedding, Apollo missions, launch of Channel 4.

BBC1 / 1x60m / 2 June 2002

Producer: Chris Wilson / Executive Producer: Mark Hagen

An affectionate portrait of the ex-Beatle. Broadcast of the eve of the live jubilee concert PARTY AT THE PALACE where he was the headline act.

UK / BBC2 (Correspondent) 1 x 45 me 30 Sept Sat 6:50pm 2000

Editor Fiona Murch. Series Producer Farah Durrani.

A look at the controversial plan by Turkey to build 22 dams across the Tigris and the Euphrates, a plan which could see the first water war break out. With concern growing in Syria and Iraq over the project.

26 Jul Wed 9:35pm 1961

Director Peter Robinson. Producer Aidan Crawley

Discussion on the changes in society over the previous 30 years. With Lord Boothby, Colin Clark, Sir Bernard Lovell, Beverly Nichols, Fred Perry, Donald Pleasence, Andrew Shonfield and Sybil Thorndyke.  With film clips introduced by Adrienne Corri.

UK / Granada 1960's - 1980's

Executive Producer Norman Swallow

A series of half hour programs looking at a contemporary British life. 

UK / Charles Castle / 1x96 minute episode / 1972

Writer?Director: Charles Castle / Camera: Dick Bush / Cartoons: Osbert Lancaster

Documentary. The life and times of Noel Coward with contributions from the likes of Celia Johnson, Sybil Thorndike, John Gielgud, Maurice Chevalier, Richard Burton, David NIven, Yul Brynner, John Mills, Gladys Cooper, Edith Evans and Coward himself.

BBC2 / 12x30m / 2001-2002 

Series looking at people fighting to preserve a traditional way of life. Narrated by Bernard Hill.

UK / BBC 1 (Manchester) 3 x 55 me 6 - 9 Jun Tues - Fri 2000

Producer Alan Brown. Director Len Brown.

An overview of the English Football Team.

Narrated by James Bolam.

1. 1966 - 73

   The glory years of the World Cup win.

2. 1974 - 86

   The difficult 'wilderness' years up to England's infamous match with Argentina in the 1986 World Cup when Maradona used his hand to score.

3. 1986 - 2000

the years when England seemed to promise so much but achieve so little. From World Cup semi final place in 1990 to almost getting here for Euro 96.

ITV 1 x 55 me 3 May mon 5:40pm 1999

Producer / Director Mandy Temple

A look at the work of a small adoption agency a it attempts to find homes for hard to place children.

BBC2 (Modern Times( 1 x 50 me 27 apr Tues 9:30pm 1999

Editor Alex Holmes. Producer Martin Parr.

A look at how the English see themselves.

UK / BBC1 1 x 85 me 4 Apr Wed 8:35pm 2001

Producer Christopher Terrill. Executive Producer Olivia Lichtenstien.

A feature length look at the daily lives of older people.

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 31 Mar Sat 11:35pm 2001

The inventors of Space Invader (Toshihiro Nishikado) and Pacman (Toru Iwatani) are interviewed in this history of the video game.

Presented by Ian Lee 

BBC2 / x60m / started 4 September 2003 

Series Producer: Ludo Graham, Adam MacDonald 

Famous battles are re-enacted using computer simulations in which enthusiasts control the troops using their own strategies. Presented by Eddie Mair. 

BBC1 / 3x60m / started 11 July 2004

Producer: Adam White

Using computer generated images and camera trickery new perspective is given to various natural wonders by travelling back in time to see how they formed over long time periods.

UK / Carlton Central 3 x 60 me First episode shown 26 Mar Mon 10:20pm 2001

Director / Producer Malcolm Clark

Post war Britain as seen by three different families. Narrated by Ian Holm. 

BBC / 1x30 minute episode / 23 December 1963 black and white

Documentary. A tribute to the work of cartoonist Timothy Birdsall who died at the age of only 26. Birdsall had been appearing each week on That Was The Week That Was providing topical cartoons.  

BBC2 / 1 x 50 minute episode / Wednesday 22 September 1999 at 9.30pm (Digital Widescreen)

Executive Producer: Andrea Miller / Director: Damon Thomas

Profile of actor Tim Roth tying in with his big screen directorial debut - the hard hitting film The War Zone.  

UK / ITV1 / 4x60m / started 23 January 2002 / 10:20pm

Producer/Director: Carole Peters

A series scrutinising British Serial killer. The first edition looked at Jack the Ripper. 

C4 / 8x60m / started 19 March 2002

Producer: Richard Bond / Series producer: Bill Locke

The history of the Tower of London - beginning with its construction.

UK / BBC2 / 2x60m / 29&30 January 2002

Four people change their skin colour using prosthetics and make up to test public attitudes to race. The first edition featured two men and the second two women. 

C4 / 6x30m / started 16 May 2002/ 8:30pm

Producer: Jane Stephenson

A companion programme to THE EDWARDIAN COUNTRY HOUSE. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall samples domestic luxuries of the Edwardian period. 

BBC1 (Everyman) / 1x50 minute episode / Sunday 10 October 1999 at 10.20pm 

Editor: Ruth Pitt / Producer: R. Medwyn Hughes

Profile of Harry Secombe as he tries to come to terms with a debilitating stroke that left him paralysed down one side of his body.

THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE

BBC2 / 6x30m / started 2 September 2002 / 7:30pm

UK / BBC2 / 3x60m / started 27 October 2002

Series Producer: Sam Collyns / Executive Producer: Peter Horrocks

Series revealing the activities of the British security services as they investigated trade union "subversives" from Arthur Scargill to former militant trade unionist Ricky Tomlinson.

C4 / 5x60m / 17 January 2002

Producer: Jenny Crowther / Series Producer: Guy Davies

The inside story of the NHS focussing on one of the UK’s biggest hospital trusts - Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham 

BBC1 / 2x60m / 28 Aug, 4 Sept 2005

Producer: Alice Harper

Bill Oddie uncovers the evidence that pieces together the truth about how ferocious the most notorious of the "killer" dinosaurs might actually have been - focussing on Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptors.

UK / Sky One-Tiger Aspect / x60m-e / 2001

Titles: Triffic Films / Music: Simon Brint / Producer: Natalie Burge / Executive Producers: Clive Tulloh, Andrew Harrison / Producer: Charlotte Wyatt 

A show looking suspiciously like the BBC's I Love the Seventies but focusing on the TV shows that were being shown throughout various years of the 1990's. Narrated by Stuart Maconie and with lots of talking head style interviews with minor celebrities. 

BBC1 / 1x60m / 2 May 2004

Producer/Director: Richard Downes

An account of the life of novelist Anthony Trollope and the influences of two women in his life, his wife Rose and the feminist Kate Field. Narrated by Stephen Fry. With:- Clive Merrison as Trollope, Gabrielle Lloyd as Rose, Carrie Rawlings as Kate Field

TWO MEN IN A TRENCH

BBC2 / 6x50m / started 3 September 2002

Two archaeologists, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver, survey undisturbed battlefields and use the artefacts they find to illustrate aspects of major British conflicts.

BBC2 / 1x50 minute episode Wednesday 23 February 2000 at 11.25pm

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Profile of dancer Michael Clark going behind the scenes on his work CURRENT/See which marked his return to the stage after 4 years.