Reel History of Britain Episode guide
Beside the Seaside
20/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Blackpool as we end the series by looking at 1950s seaside holidays.
First broadcast: 30 Sep 2011
Dawn of a New Era
19/20 A look back to the 1900s and the invention of the film camera.
First broadcast: 29 Sep 2011
The End of the Line
18/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Sheringham in Norfolk to look at the final years of steam railways.
First broadcast: 28 Sep 2011
Streets in the Sky
17/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Sheffield to look at films about housing redevelopments in the 1970s.
First broadcast: 27 Sep 2011
Long to Reign Over Us
16/20 Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
First broadcast: 26 Sep 2011
Britain's Secondary Modern Schools
15/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Watford to look back at films relating to school days in the 1960s.
First broadcast: 23 Sep 2011
Britain's Green and Pleasant Land
14/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Kent to look back at films of rural life from the 1930s.
First broadcast: 22 Sep 2011
A Right Royal Knees-Up
13/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, looking at the Silver Jubilee in 1977.
First broadcast: 21 Sep 2011
Steel Ships and Iron Men
12/20 Melvyn Bragg is in Glasgow looking at the ship building industry in the 1930s.
First broadcast: 20 Sep 2011
The Birth of the NHS
11/20 Aneira Thomas shares her remarkable claim to fame, as the first baby born on the NHS.
First broadcast: 19 Sep 2011
Sun, Sea and Sangria
10/20 Charting the advent of the Mediterranean package holiday.
First broadcast: 16 Sep 2011
The Glory Days of Fishing
9/20 A look back to the 1920s and the heyday of British fishing.
First broadcast: 15 Sep 2011
Britain On the Move
8/20 Looking back to the eve of popular car ownership in the 60s.
First broadcast: 14 Sep 2011
Britain's National Disgrace
7/20 A look back to the 1930s when millions of Britains lived in the squalor of urban slums.
First broadcast: 13 Sep 2011
Britain's Home Guard
6/20 Melvyn visits the site of the first Home Guard training school in Osterley.
First broadcast: 12 Sep 2011
Britain's Home Guard
6/20 Melvyn Bragg is at Osterley Park to show BFI films relating to the real Dad's Army.
The Roaring Twenties
5/20 At Cliveden House in Berkshire, Melvyn looks back to the Roaring Twenties.
First broadcast: 09 Sep 2011
Britain's Black Diamonds
4/20 In South Wales, Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1930s and salutes Britain's coal miners.
First broadcast: 08 Sep 2011
Soldier, Soldier
3/20 In Preston, Melvyn Bragg looks back to the First World War.
First broadcast: 07 Sep 2011
Britain's First Teenagers
2/20 Melvyn Bragg looks back at when Britain broke free of the burdens of WWII.
First broadcast: 06 Sep 2011
Britain's Wartime Evacuees
1/20 In Torquay, Melvyn looks back to the 1940s and wartime evacuation.
First broadcast: 05 Sep 2011
