Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 4
12 episodes · premiered Jan 9, 1985
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- Episode 1: Episode 1 Jan 9, 1985 · 50m REAGAN'S COWBOYS: Why have successive presidents celebrated the cowboy as all-American hero? THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS DEAD: But did it ever flourish? How true is the picture painted of the…
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Jan 30, 1985 · 50m TAFF VALE: In 1900 the railway workers of Taff Vale embarked on a strike which has political implications to this day. Timewatch examines the first great clash between the Trades Unions…
- Episode 3: Special: The Age of Charles II Feb 6, 1985 · 50m 'Let not poor Nellie starve.' With those words Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', died 300 years ago. Of all British sovereigns, this womanising, yachting, horse-racing king has a fond place…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Mar 6, 1985 · 50m CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tensions behind the friendship and Britain's collapse as a great…
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Apr 3, 1985 · 1h THE UNUSED WEAPON: By 1945 the Allies and the Nazis had stockpiled five times more chemical weapons than had been used throughout the First World War. They were never used. Why? Robert…
- Episode 6: The Battle for Berlin May 8, 1985 · 55m In April 1945, British and American troops were sweeping across Western Germany. Charles Wheeler was among them. They stopped 50 miles short of the German capital and Berlin became the…
- Episode 7: Aspects of War Oct 10, 1985 · 50m This month's programme comes from the centre of Oxford where Peter France introduces three stories which have their roots deep in the confused and bewildering fortunes of the Boer War…
- Episode 8: Elements of Justice Nov 7, 1985 · 50m SUMMER OF THE HANGING JUDGE: An examination of the life and times of Judge George Jeffreys 300 years after he presided over the infamous Bloody Assizes which followed the Monmouth…
- Episode 9: Magic Circles Dec 5, 1985 · 50m Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex reveals the feelings of a man caught up in a scientific…
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