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I Love This Dirty Town
Margaret Drabble investigates the problems of town planning and traffic. (1969)
BBC
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Tuesday Documentary
Long-running documentary series covering a wide range of current affairs topics.
BBC
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4472 - Flying Scotsman
Travel from London’s King’s Cross to Edinburgh on the 'Flying Scotsman'. (1968)
BBC
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One Pair of Eyes
Programmes offering individuals a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.
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Whicker's World
Journalist Alan Whicker reports on interesting social stories from across the globe.
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Humphrey Burton: Conversations with Glenn Gould
Celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould talks and plays to Humphrey Burton. From 1966.
BBC Two
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People to Watch
Series featuring interviews with major social, political and scientific figures.
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Too Near the Sun
Documentary exploring the race to build the first thermonuclear weapon. From 1966.
BBC One
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1966 General Election
The BBC's 1966 election night programme, presented by Cliff Michelmore.
BBC Parliament
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Man Alive
Documentary series confronting social and political issues in contemporary society.
BBC Two
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Intimations
Malcolm Muggeridge talks to iconic figures from the arts, culture and literary worlds.
BBC
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Inside America
1965 series profiling 13 Americans, with insights into their professions and industries.
BBC
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Late Night Line-Up
Iconic late-night discussion programme, featuring reviews of television and the arts.
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Jungle Green: Borneo
40 Commando patrols jungles in North Borneo, in search of Indonesian terrorists. (1964)
BBC
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Soldier in the Sun
Informational film following the Army in Aden (Yemen) during a state of emergency. (1964)
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A City Crowned with Green
How London has grown in size and spread into the surrounding country. (1964)
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The Solitary Billionaire: J. Paul Getty
Alan Whicker interviews billionaire J. Paul Getty at his home in Surrey. (1963)
BBC
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Waiting For Work
Jack Ashley's film showed the suffering caused by high unemployment in Hartlepool. (1963)
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Barbara Hepworth
A look at how Cornish landscapes have influenced sculptor Barbara Hepworth's work. (1961)
BBC
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Elsa the Lioness
David Attenborough meets Elsa the lioness in Kenya, shortly before Elsa's death.
BBC Four
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The Sky at Night
Iconic series exploring space science and the incredible universe all around us.
BBC Four
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Meet the Red Devils: Parachute Regiment
The parachute regiment demonstrate training at their Aldershot barracks. (1960)
BBC
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A House in Bayswater
An early film by Ken Russell about the tenants of a house in Bayswater. (1960)
BBC
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Borrowed Pasture
Two Polish soldiers struggle to make a living from a derelict farm in Wales. (1960)
BBC
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The Grandeur That Was Rome
Sir Mortimer Wheeler considers some of the outstanding features of the Roman Empire
BBC
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Humphrey Burton: Profile of a Quartet
Humphrey Burton directs a film story about the life and work of a string quartet. (1960)
BBC Two
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After the Battle
Noted war correspondents return to the WWII battlefields from where they had reported.
BBC
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1959 General Election
An archive broadcast of the BBC's 1959 General Election results programme.
BBC Parliament
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Morning in the Streets
1959 documentary showing images of a Liverpool still recovering from the post-war gloom.
BBC
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Face to Face
The classic series of intense, probing interviews. With John Freeman and Jeremy Isaacs.
BBC Two
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On Call to a Nation
A programme about doctors, and the NHS as they see it - ten years after it started. (1958)
BBC
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