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Overview
Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series being shown on BBC Two, presented by Melvyn Bragg and about the history of modern Britain; through the eyes of people who were there. It was shown from 5–30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary, charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years, since the advent of moving film. In each episode, Bragg goes to a different place in the UK and shows people film in a 1950s Ministry of Technology mobile cinema, then gauges their reactions and captures them on film.
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Melvyn Bragg
Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Britain's Wartime Evacuees
2. Britain's First Teenagers
3. Soldier, Soldier
4. Britain's Black Diamonds
5. The Roaring Twenties
6. Britain's Home Guard
7. Britain's National Disgrace
8. Britain On the Move
9. The Glory Days of Fishing
10. Sun, Sea and Sangria
11. The Birth of the NHS
12. Steel Ships and Iron Men
13. A Right Royal Knees Up
14. Britain's Green and Pleasant Land
15. Britain's Secondary Modern Schools
16. Long to Reign Over Us
17. Streets in the Sky
18. The End of the Line
19. Dawn of a New Era
20. Beside the Seaside