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Sahara with Michael Palin

The intrepid traveller plans his assault on the Sahara desert.   First shown on BBC1 Palin's 
East of Ipswich is at 8.45pm

The Great British Seaside Holiday: Timeshift

Timeshift

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.

The Great British Seaside Holiday - Timeshift

Timeshift: Series 2: The Great British Seaside Holiday

The Great British Seaside Holiday

Series 2

BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 2, The Great British Seaside Holiday

A bank holiday celebration of the history of the British seaside holiday experience.

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since.

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since.

Interviewees including Jonathan Meades, Martin Parr and Bill Pertwee explain the way that the seaside has always been the place we all visit to lose our inhibitions and reveal a different side to ourselves. We look at how our different experiences of the seaside - end of the pier shows, fearsome landladies and holiday camps - have given rise to different traditions and a nostalgia, both working-class and middle-class, for a time when life's pleasures were simpler and foreign holidays were the preserve of the very rich.

Timeshift: Series 2

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history

Time Shift: The British Seaside

The British seaside holiday is celebrated. With Martin Parr, Jonathan Meades and Bill Pertwee. Showing in the Time Shift strand.

East of Ipswich

Screen Two

Landmark productions from the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.

Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1980s and 1990s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.

Screen Two: Series 3: Episode 5: East of Ipswich

Episode 5

Episode 5: East of Ipswich

Series 3

BBC Two - Screen Two, Series 3, East of Ipswich

Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy drama about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort.

Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort as Richard Burrill, a 17-year-old, is reluctantly dragged to Southwold with his parents.

Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort. Richard Burrill, a 17-year-old, is reluctantly dragged to Southwold with his parents, where he meets Edwin, another teenager who has very definite ideas about how to enjoy himself, and a young Dutch girl with an eye for the boys.

Screen Two: Series 3

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

The third series of single made-for-television dramas.

Michael Palin 's coming-of-age drama, about a group of 1950s teens on holiday with their uptight parents. First shown in 1987. First shown on BBC2

Time of Their Lives

England on Film explores the history of the North of England, with rare footage.

Hooded Britain

A fresh approach to coastal defence: knocking walls down and letting the sea back in.

Sllje Norgaard In Concert

Standards and originals with the Norwegian jazz star.

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The Talk Show with Andrew Marr

Must the world rely on Middle East oil?  
2.25 Examining reform and conflict in China.  
2.55 Was President Bill Clinton misunderstood?

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Sahara with Michael Palin

Time of Their Lives

Hooded Britain

Sllje Norgaard In Concert

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The Talk Show with Andrew Marr

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