Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 10
21 episodes · premiered Jan 23, 1991
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- Episode 1: Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness Jan 23, 1991 · 50m Historians and archaeologists have started to reassess some of the ingrained myths of American history. American Indians lived in sophisticated societies, and many more died as a result of…
- Episode 2: Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation Jan 30, 1991 · 50m Every year the Sioux nation of South Dakota pays homage to more than 300 unarmed Indians killed by US troops on 29 December 1890. For the survivors and their descendants, it was the…
- Episode 3: The Man Who Made the Supergun Feb 13, 1991 · 50m The assassination a year ago of Dr Gerald Bull prevented Saddam Hussein from acquiring a 'supergun'. Bull designed the world's best howitzers, many bought by Iraq, but the supergun…
- Episode 4: Reluctant Comrade Feb 27, 1991 · 50m In 1934, Robert Robinson, a young black car worker from Detroit, was blacklisted by America after renewing a short-term contract from the Russians to work in the First State Ball Bearing…
- Episode 5: The Transmission of Roger Bacon Mar 13, 1991 · 50m A death ray to combat the Antichrist; the effectiveness of astrology; the bizarre sexual practices of the Brahmins; and the impossibility of a society whose sole aim is money and gain…
- Episode 6: Palestine: The First Intifada Mar 27, 1991 · 50m For the last three years Palestinians have been involved in an Intifada against the Israeli occupation of their homeland; 50 years ago the British administration in Palestine was faced…
- Episode 7: A Cold War Apr 10, 1991 · 50m In 1945 Britain, America and the USSR were allies against Hitler; less than a year later Winston Churchill condemned Soviet expansionism. With east-west relations once again at a…
- Episode 8: Beside Franco in Spain Sep 18, 1991 · 1h The story of how Britain abandoned Spain's democratically elected government during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 and gave clandestine support to the nationalists and General Franco…
- Episode 9: Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain Oct 2, 1991 · 50m Charles Darwin lived in fear of disgrace because of his views. He believed that humans were just a better sort of ape, that we evolved from worms. These were shattering ideas, especially…
- Episode 10: The Columbus Conspiracy Oct 16, 1991 · 50m Was Columbus really the first to discover America? Five hundred years ago three ships sailed from Spain on the most famous voyage in history - west, west and always west across the unknown…
- Episode 11: Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme Oct 30, 1991 · 50m In the first of two programmes about the First World War, German writer Ludwig Harig makes a pilgrimage to the Somme, hoping to understand why his father was unable to speak about the war…
- Episode 12: Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations Nov 6, 1991 · 50m The letters between military surgeon Georges Duhamel and his wife Blanche lay forgotten in a family attic for 75 years. Recently rediscovered, they reveal a poignant love story set against…
- Episode 13: Suffer the Children Nov 20, 1991 · 50m In the 1830s a pioneering social investigation into child labour uncovered an appalling picture of deprivation, poverty and remorseless physical exploitation throughout Britain and sparked…
- Episode 14: The Spoils of War Dec 18, 1991 · 50m During the Second World War, the Nazis took many art treasures for "care and safe-keeping", including the priceless collection of French Impressionist paintings built up by the…
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