Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 13
16 episodes · premiered Jan 12, 1994
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- Episode 1: Forgotten Heroes Jan 12, 1994 · 50m One In four British merchant seamen died during the Second World War. Life on board ship was dangerous, poorly paid and carried a far higher casualty rate than any of the armed services…
- Episode 2: The Real Rasputin Jan 26, 1994 · 50m When Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin was murdered in 1916, rumour and political expediency set to work to paint him as a villain, responsible for the downfall of the Romanov empire, an insane…
- Episode 3: Spies in the Sky Feb 9, 1994 · 50m Since 1949, dozens of planes and up to 200 US, British and allied air-crew have been lost in an undeclared aerial espionage war between the western powers and the Soviet Union. Many of…
- Episode 4: Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 Mar 9, 1994 · 50m In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treated a failed marriage as a criminal offence. Timewatch…
- Episode 5: Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration Apr 6, 1994 · 50m While the British government publicly operated an open-door policy to immigrants, in private it was terrified about the growing black population. Documents released under the 30-year rule…
- Episode 6: Seeds of War Jun 26, 1994 · 1h The question of how the First World War was started has been one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The flashpoint was the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, heir…
- Episode 7: The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition Nov 6, 1994 · 50m An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in reality it was none of these things. How did the truth…
- Episode 8: Hitler's Secret Weapons Nov 13, 1994 · 50m In the final few months of the Second World War, Hitler's revolutionary V1 and V2 missiles terrorised southern England. In London alone, 25,000 homes were levelled and 8,000 people killed…
- Episode 9: Flames of War Nov 20, 1994 · 50m A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. The historical characters of Parliamentarian Lord Saye and…
- Episode 10: Age of the Sphinx Nov 27, 1994 · 50m The tale of one man's attempt to rewrite the history of the world by redating Egypt's greatest mystery, the Sphinx. Until now, no one can say for sure why, when or by whom the famous…
- Episode 11: Khrushchev - The Peasant Premier Dec 4, 1994 · 1h In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukrainian peasant's son. He contributed to the crises in Berlin…
- Episode 12: Memo from Machiavelli: How to Succeed in British Politics Dec 11, 1994 · 50m Niccolo Machiavelli's name is synonymous with political intrigue, but recent analysis of his work suggests that he was a political pragmatist whose best-known book 'The Prince' is as…
- Episode 13: Typhoid Mary Dec 18, 1994 · 55m Story of the woman judged to be such a danger to public health that she was incarcerated by the city of New York for 23 years. In the winter of 1906, Dr George Soper was summoned to Oyster…
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