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Turn Back Time – The High Street
Description: A group of modern shopkeepers take over a neglected market square. Genre: Documentary Year Released: 2010 Number of episodes: 6 First episode air date: November 2, 2010 Network: BBC One Narrated By: Hugh Bonneville Genres: Documentary, Reality television
Plot: Presenter Fi Glover and historian Ruth Goodman take six celebrities back in time to experience life in Victorian Britain. Over the course of four days, the stars are sent to graft at four different 19th-century workplaces. Without mod cons the participants have to eat, sleep, work and dress as working...
Plot: Following the success of `Back in Time for Dinner' - which saw a family experience 50 years of trends in British cuisine - BBC2 once again revs up the time machine to see what life was like without modern conveniences like tablets, computers, cell phones and gadgets. For one summer, the Ashby-Hawkins...
Plot: In this historical documentary series, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman team up to re-create a working Edwardian farm. The farm, located at Morwellham Quay in Devon, becomes home for the trio for a full calendar year as they learn to live a simpler but...
Plot: BBC's turn-back-the-clock `Farm' series continue with this eight-part look at the efforts of historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn, who run Manor Farm as if it was during the Second World War. The programme focuses on all aspects of domestic and farming life of the...
Plot: In an Edwardian country house, 21 people are taken back in time and must live as the original inhabitants of the building. While six people are given the roles of the upstairs family, 15 are given servant positions.
Plot: Archaeologist Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman, who is also a leading specialist in Tudor domestic life, return to front this six-part series, following the success of living history series `Victorian Farm', `Edwardian Farm' and `Wartime Farm'. Joined this time by archaeologist Tom Pinfold, the...
Plot: Life in a 19th-century pharmacy is re-created in this four-part documentary. Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and doctorate student Tom Quick discover how people attempted to cure common ailments beginning at the time of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, when remedies such as leeches, oil...
Plot: Three families give up their 21st-century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in 1927. Over three weeks we discover whether the community will survive without a microwave, mobile, fast car or fast food.
Plot: Ten celebrities, including Kirstie Alley, Fern Britton, Louise Minchin and Zoe Smith, leave the 21st century behind and crash-land into different moments in British history.
Plot: This five-part series charts the evolution of one of Britain's most important institutions - the family. The programme, which blends living history with genealogy, explores what it means to be a mother, father and child through 100 years of change, from historic times to today. The series follows th...
Plot: `10,000 BC' follows 20 modern-day Brits taking part in a social experiment that takes them back to Stone Age conditions. The series sees men and women from the 21st century live for two months without modern amenities in a remote forested wilderness. Helping them go back to basics is archaeologist...
Plot: The past and present collide in this series steeped in history. Fourteen contestants go through the same rigorous four-day selection process that Britain's top-secret World War II spies endured. The recruits travel to a remote estate and train on using weapons like guns and explosives, as well as training...
Plot: This historical documentary series finds archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman on the Acton Scott estate, located in rural England and frozen in the Victorian era. The trio lives here for a year, using only Victorian-era tools and materials, such as those...
Plot: This reality-documentary goes back in time to the Victorian period, in a social experiment exploring British history. The late-Victorian era marks a time when poverty in London's East End was rife, as millions of Britons endured difficult living and working conditions, struggling to make ends meet....