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One Foot in the Past: Decoration
Interiors can say more about how people lived than bricks and mortar. Kirsty Wark discovers a lost tradition of plasterwork in the West Country, Lucinda Lambton visits Islington to see the last surviving traditional wallpaper factory in London, which decorated Buckingham Palace, and Roger Bowdler celebrates the overlooked art form of wall paintings.
Directors Sam Hobkinson , Louise Hooper and Peter Sweasey
Series producer Tim Dunn
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8.05 History Zone Films: Echoes of the Raj
The final years of British rule in India are remembered in five personal stories, illustrated by home movies and photographs to recall a lost way of life and build an evocative picture of the dying days of the empire.
See Choice.
Producer Catrine Clay ; Editor Laurence Rees
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Factual: History Zone Films 8.05pm BBC2
Forget Jamie Oliver and go back to a time when "pukka" was a word in common parlance. Echoes of the Raj, the latest of the History Zone Films, is a glorious collection of home movies and personal recollections of life in India during the two decades before independence in 1947. For the Brits it was an era of endless social events, ceremonies and a very strict etiquette that controlled everything, including where you sat at an official dinner. Among the wonderfully evocative pieces of footage are scenes of porters carrying a memsahib's treasured possessions up the mountains to Simla and of one family's three-week trek to Gilgit near the north-west frontier. A thoroughly enjoyable film, it is preceded by One Foot in the Past at 7.35pm, which uncovers the overlooked power of interior decoration. (JR)