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Child of Our Time

Robert Winston's survey looks at memory development in the subject babies. First shown on BBC1

The World

Two Men in a Trench

Archaeologists Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver attempt to bring great conflicts to life.

Two Men in a Trench: Series 2: The Battle of Britain

22/01/2004

The Battle of Britain

Series 2

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Bringing an airbase at the height of the Battle of Britain to life. (2004)

Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver bring to life something of the atmosphere and daily bustle of an airbase at the height of the Battle of Britain. (2004)

Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver bring to life something of the atmosphere and daily bustle of an airbase at the height of the Battle of Britain as they uncover long-lost Tet turrets, dig up forgotten anti-aircraft settings and reveal the shape of an E pen, which would have housed Spitfires. They speak to people who worked at the airbase during World War II, sit in a Spitfire that actually flew from Hornchurch and try on pilots' uniforms as a military historian talks them through what an encounter with a Messerschmitt 109 would have been like. (2004)

Two Men in a Trench: Series 2

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Two Men in a Trench: The Battle of Britain

Two Men In a Trench

New series 1/6.

Archaeologists Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver uncover the lost site in Essex of one of the Battle of Britain's most important air bases.

Dinner with Portillo

New series 1/6. Michael Portillo 's guests for a debate on asylum seekers include Maggie O'Kane and Peter Hitchens.

The Alan Clark Diaries: Episode 2: The Lady

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Lady

The Alan Clark Diaries

The Lady

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Clark plots his way ever closer to Margaret Thatcher and her lovely ankles.

Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP. Clark plots his way ever closer to Margaret Thatcher and her lovely ankles.

Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP. Determined to escape the hateful confines of the Department of Employment and to get into the very vortex of power, Clark plots his way ever closer to Margaret Thatcher and her lovely ankles. But at every turn, he is hampered by his predilection for scandal and gaffes.

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Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.

2/6. Clark makes an ill-advised racial comment but is still made Minister of Trade.

The Mark Steel Lectures

2/6. The comedian and writer irreverently re-assesses Sir Isaac Newton 's reputation.

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