Season 5

episodes

1. 1. Matter of Record 1986-01-01 50 min Three films which reflect the way official records are preserved for future generations. Film 1: Christopher Andrew examines the extraordinary story of how the MS Automedon, entrusted with top secret...
2. 2. Episode 2 1986-02-06 50 min Two stories shed new light on the life and times of Henry Tudor, who took the throne of England from Richard III 500 years ago. Film 1: The problems facing Margaret Rule and her assistant Andrew Fiel...
3. 3. The Master Builders 1986-03-06 55 min Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the turn of the 19th cen...
4. 4. Episode 4 1986-04-03 55 min Three stories presented from the Virago bookshop in Covent Garden about the lives of women in worlds dominated by men. THE NINE DAY QUEEN: Lady Jane Grey was used by men of power when she was alive,...
5. 5. Special: All the King's Men 1986-05-01 60 min In January 1943 lone British agent Henri Dericourt was dropped over occupied France. His mission was to organise the reception and departure of RAF flights crucial to the secret work of SOE - the Spec...
6. 6. The Road to War 1986-06-08 60 min In 1936 'The Road to War' used newsreel to try to alert the American people to the mounting horror of war in China, Ethiopia, Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain. But America did not want to know and th...
7. 7. The Price of the Past 1986-10-09 50 min Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders: - A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rorke's Drift more than...
8. 8. A Medieval Affair 1986-11-11 50 min The Domesday Book was completed 900 years ago, but it says little about the daily worries and concerns of the people whose land and animals are recorded in so much detail. Three films help evoke somet...
9. 9. The Human Factor 1986-12-04 50 min Film 1: How a Bulgarian peasant farmer stumbled across the largest Thracian treasure ever discovered - more than 160 silver bowls and jugs, found while digging an irrigation ditch. THE MAN WHO MADE H...
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