Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

Episode 2: Making Connections

BBC Four

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Mon 19^th Aug 2013, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Tue 27^th Feb 2018, 23:00 on BBC Four HD

Olivia Horsfall Turner looks at two of the most radical civil engineering projects proposed in the last century - a ship canal in Scotland and the Channel Tunnel. Show more

Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

Episode 3: A Revolution in the City

BBC Four

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Mon 26^th Aug 2013, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Tue 6^th Mar 2018, 23:00 on BBC Four HD

Olivia Horsfall Turner looks at plans to radically reconstruct 17th-century London and 1940s Glasgow by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Bruce respectively. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Olivia Horsfall Turner
Series Producer:: Paul Murton
Director:: Kathryn Ross
Producer:: Kathryn Ross

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Series

Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

Source: BBC Online

Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

Episode 1: Glass Houses

BBC Four

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Mon 12^th Aug 2013, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Tue 20^th Feb 2018, 23:00 on BBC Four HD

Olivia Horsfall Turner explores how architects Joseph Paxton and Geoffrey Jellicoe planned to use glass to solve London's pollution and congestion problems. Show more