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THE LOST DECADE PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS 2
Week 2: Saturday 8 October - Friday 14 October 2005
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Saturday 8 October
FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT
7.10pm-8.10pm; 3am-4am
Roy Hudd joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for the first ever TV recording of this radio favourite. There are Light Music classics, period songs and a couple of surprises. With guests Janis Kelly and Alasdair Malloy and conductor John Wilson.
MUSIC FOR EVERYBODY!
8.10pm-9.10pm; 2am-3am
Light Music was once loved by millions but now is almost completely forgotten. Brian Kay narrates the story behind the cheerful melodies that dominated post-war British radio.
RONALD SEARLE: SEARLE'S PROGRESS
9.40pm-10.40pm; 1am-2am
The first film to consider the cartoonist’s life and work in 30 years, looks at how his style was affected by his experiences in a prisoner of war camp. After the war, Searle’s decorative and amusing drawings became more penetrating and disturbing.
FILM: THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
10.40pm-midnight
Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford both excel in this typical slice of 1950s farce. Trouble erupts when a clerical error forces the girls of St Swithins School to be evacuated to nearby Nutborne Boys School.
Sunday 9 October
THOROUGHLY MODERN ANTIQUES: ADORNMENT
7.35pm-8.05pm; 1.05am-1.35am; 2.35am-3.05am
Despite rationing and continued austerity, post-war Britain
was a hot bed of radical design, an era that saw the birth of modern, innovative lines in ceramics, glassware and contemporary textiles. Episode
2 examines what brought about this revolution in domestic decor.
WHEN BRITAIN WENT BANANAS
8.05pm-9.05pm; 1.35am-2.35am
In December 1945 bananas returned to Britain after a five-year absence. Sadly they were only available to pregnant women and children. This is the story of those who were so desperate to taste the forbidden fruit that they were prepared to break the law to do so.
 Watch a preview
LITTLE KINSEY
11.15pm-12.15am
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
Monday 10 October
EVACUEES
9pm-10pm; 11.55pm-12.55am
Despite rationing and continued austerity, post-war Britain was a hot bed of radical design, an era that saw the birth of modern, innovative lines in ceramics, glassware and contemporary textiles. Episode 2 examines what brought about this revolution in domestic decor.
FILM: GENEVIEVE
10pm-11.25pm
Two couples (Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Keneth Moore) driving in the London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Rally suffer various misadventures in this classic comedy from 1953.
Tuesday 11 October
THOROUGHLY MODERN ANTIQUES: ADORNMENT
8.30pm-9pm; 2.55am-3.15am
Despite rationing and continued austerity, post-war Britain
was a hot bed of radical design, an era that saw the birth of modern, innovative lines in ceramics, glassware and contemporary textiles. Episode
2 examines what brought about this revolution in domestic decor.
BAD FOOD GUIDE
9pm-10pm; 12.45am-1.45am; 3.15am-4.15am
How awful were restaurant menus in the age of rationing, Spam and powdered egg? In 1951 Raymond Postgate, left-wing historian and author, published the Good Food Guide, which pointed people to 500 places to eat well.
RONALD SEARLE
11.45pm-12.45am; midnight-1am
The first film to consider the cartoonist’s life and work in 30 years, looks at how his style was affected by his experiences in a prisoner of war camp. After the war, Searle’s decorative and amusing drawings became more penetrating and disturbing.
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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