Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 294,259 playable programmes from the BBC

Britain on Film

Series 2

Episode 7: The Home Front

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Archive-based series on British life in the 1960s continues with an episode devoted to some of the most monumental challenges of the post-war period - how to tackle desperate housing shortages, rebuild shattered cities and meet the rising expectations of an increasingly affluent and consumerist nation. As these films show, 1960s Britain embraced ambitious solutions by building high-rise homes in our cities and New Towns in the country. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More