Season 7

episodes

1. 1. Evidence of Neglect 1988-01-06 50 min Three films examine the ways our historical record is under attack. In fireproof vaults, millions of feet of film shot on nitrate stock in the first half of this century are decomposing - their images...
2. 2. Wars of the Word 1988-02-03 50 min The control of national television is seen by regimes the world over as a necessary adjunct to their survival today. Peter France presents two films about the control and effect of mass communications...
3. 3. The Man in the Iron Mask 1988-03-02 50 min Henry Lincoln investigates the story of the 'Man in the Iron Mask' and - using evidence which only came to light last year - separates fact from romantic myth.
4. 4. The Hunger Winter 1988-03-30 50 min In September 1944, in retaliation for Dutch support of the Arnhem landings, the Nazis cut off all food supplies to the population of western Holland. Stocks fell through the following winter until by...
5. 5. Dishonour and Death 1988-06-01 50 min Christopher Andrew presents two stories from the darker and more secret side of British history over the past 150 years. THE DIARY OF A VERY ENGLISH SPY is an insight, based on a unique document, int...
6. 6. Verdict on the Shroud 1988-07-27 50 min How old is the Shroud of Turin? To millions of believers it's the burial cloth of Jesus, to sceptics it's a clever medieval fake. Recently the age of the shroud was finally determined by radiocarbon d...
7. 7. Shadow of the Ripper 1988-09-07 50 min 5.0 Bizarre theories have surrounded the unexplained killings in Whitechapel since they hit the headlines in 1888. This film dispels the grisly fiction, revealing for the first time the true contents of t...
8. 8. A Woman's Story 1988-10-05 50 min One hundred years after the matchgirls strike, this dramatised documentary looks at the life of Annie Besant, strike leader, pioneering 19th-century social reformer, and campaigner for the use of cont...
9. 9. Visions of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution 1988-11-09 50 min Peter France examines the Glorious Revolution of 1688 from the perspective of William of Orange, unearthing the real motives behind his invasion.
10. 10. Bukharin and the Terror 1988-12-07 50 min Fifty years ago, Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's right-hand man and favourite of the Bolsheviks, was shot by Stalin's henchmen after the last of the infamous show trials in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev recentl...
11. 95. Episode 95
12. 97. Episode 97