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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Timeshift: Series 11

Julian Rhind-Tutt

Michael Poole

Francis Welch

Ben Southwell

Timeshift: Series 11: Episode 3: All the Fun of the Fair

All the Fun of the Fair

Episode 3

Episode 3: All the Fun of the Fair

Series 11

BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 11, All the Fun of the Fair

Documentary which explores the history of the fairground using rarely seen images.

Documentary which explores the history of the fairground, from the sideshows to the freak shows, and from early hand-powered rides to the arrival of steam and electricity.

Timeshift explores rarely seen images from the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive to ride back to the origins of the fairground. From the sideshows, the freak shows and early hand-powered rides to the arrival of steam and electricity, the story of fairs is the tale of one of our first forms of popular entertainment. 

The film shows how fairgrounds often provided the only entertainment to rapidly expanding industrial towns. It looks at how, from the 50s, the fairground was the site of youth rebellion, and why we are still entranced by these travelling carnivals that arrive overnight and then vanish just as mysteriously.

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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history

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