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THE LOST DECADE PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Week 1: Saturday 1 October - Wednesday 5 October 2005
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From the VE Day celebrations to Roger Bannister's four-minute mile, explore the key events of the Lost Decade with clips from programmes in the season.
Saturday 1 October
THE JITTERBUG YEARS
7pm-7.40pm; 10.10pm-10.50pm; 3.05am-3.35am
Archive clips show that the post-war years weren't as dull as you thought. A new dance craze sweeps the nation, Billy Butlin's holiday camps swell with sun-seekers and Stanley Matthews' fancy footwork stuns the nation.
 Watch a preview
THE IMPROBABLE MR ATTLEE
9.10pm-10.10pm; 1.35am-2.35am
Professor David Reynolds (Churchill: The Forgotten Years) takes a fresh look at the achievements and failures of Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government and examines the man caught between socialism, patriotism and Cabinet colleagues who craved his job.
Clement Attlee calls a general election
Sunday 2 October
THOROUGHLY MODERN ANTIQUES 1
7.35pm-8.05pm; 12.55am-1.25am
Part one of a four-part series exploring how today's most sought after home designs emerged from
the austerity of World War II. The first episode traces the radical
re-design of British furniture and how the "make do and mend" ethos
resulted in modern affordable furniture for everyone.
Monday 3 October
OUR HIDDEN LIVES
9pm-10.15pm
Sarah Parish, Ian McDiarmid, Richard Briers and Lesley Sharp star in the adaptation of Simon Garfield's bestseller. The drama weaves together the real-life diaries of four people confronting the uncertain years following World War II.
FILM: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING
10.15pm-11.45pm
An ambitious young woman is thrown into turmoil when she meets a handsome local laird en route to her wedding on a Scottish island.
Tuesday 4 October
THOROUGHLY MODERN ANTIQUES 1
8.30pm-9pm; 12.45am-1.15am; 3.40am-4.10am
Part one of a four-part series exploring how today's most sought after home designs emerged from
the austerity of World War II. The first episode traces the radical
re-design of British furniture and how the "make do and mend" ethos
resulted in modern affordable furniture for everyone.
OUR HIDDEN LIVES
10.30pm-11.45pm; 2.25am-3.40am
Sarah Parish, Ian McDiarmid, Richard Briers and Lesley Sharp star in the adaptation of Simon Garfield's bestseller. The drama weaves together the real-life diaries of four people confronting the uncertain years following World War II.
Wednesday 5 October
THE JITTERBUG YEARS
1.15am-1.55am (Tues night)
Archive clips show that the post-war years weren't as dull as you thought as a new dance craze sweeps the nation, Billy Butlin's holiday camps swell with sun-seekers and Stanley Matthews' fancy footwork stuns the nation.
Watch a preview
LITTLE KINSEY
10pm-11pm
First-hand testimonies lift the lid on Britain's first-ever sex survey, conducted by Mass Observation in 1949, and considered so shocking that its results have never been published.
Watch a preview
You will need RealPlayer to access the clips and many of them can only be watched if you are in the UK. Visit
WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer
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