Season 9

episodes

1. 1. An Edge of Conspiracy 1990-01-17 50 min Was the last prisoner of Spandau Prison in Berlin really Rudolf Hess, one time deputy to Adolf Hitler, or a doppelganger put in his place by the Nazis before his incredible flight to Britain in 1941?...
2. 2. Napoleon's Last Battle 1990-02-21 65 min Timewatch explores the myth of the man who had a vision of a united Europe 175 years ago.
3. 3. Hungary: The End of Silence 1990-03-21 60 min The Communist party of Hungary has been forced to surrender its monopoly on truth, but it still controls access to the official archives. Any truths about the past 40 years must, therefore, come from...
4. 4. Accounts of a Forgotten Army 1990-09-05 50 min In 1945 the German State and its army disappeared. Recently, harrowing tales from Germans who were prisoners in American camps at that time have begun to emerge. A Canadian author has alleged that nea...
5. 5. Helping the Police with Their Enquiries 1990-09-19 50 min In the USA it is becoming standard practice for police to call in archaeologists and anthropologists with their skills at excavation and bone analysis to help them unravel murder cases. Now a British...
6. 6. The Sipan Affair 1990-10-03 50 min In January 1987 a band of grave robbers broke into a royal tomb at Sipan in northern Peru. The treasure they plundered was worth millions. Within months it had been smuggled by way of London to Los An...
7. 7. I Don't Want to Be Remembered As a Chair 1990-10-17 50 min On the shore of Sabbathday Lake in Maine lives a religious community of nine men and women. They are the last practising Shakers - members of a sect once persecuted for its dissenting beliefs and celi...
8. 8. All the King's Jews 1990-10-31 50 min Seven hundred years ago tomorrow - on 1 November 1290 - the Jews were expelled from England. Christopher Andrew unfolds the extraordinary story of England's medieval Jews and discovers the English roo...
9. 9. A War Far from Home 1990-11-14 50 min In 1914-15 138,000 Indians fought on the Western Front. More than a quarter were casualties. We know what the ordinary soldier felt about the war in France because his letters home were translated and...
10. 10. One of the Reasons Why 1990-11-28 50 min Charles Wheeler tells how the colonial policy of the post-war Labour government led to the start of a 30-year war in Vietnam.
11. 11. White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave 1990-12-12 49 min On January 23 1915, black insurgents broke into a house on the biggest plantation in British colonial Nyasaland. The rebels killed the white manager, cut off his head and carried it home. The planter'...
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