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Timewatch is the world's longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC's flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War OneBBC

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

20 October 2008

Michael Palin joins the Timewatch team to tell the story of the final day of the First World War - the war in which...  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoriaphotos.com

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06 October 2008

Is the popular image of an austere Queen Victoria fair?  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoria

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - The Boxer RebellionProduction team Gruppe 5 - cleared for TV, DVD and internet

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

30 September 2008

The Boxer Rebellion might only be dimly-remembered, but as Timewatch explained, it was pivotal in world history  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - The Boxer Rebellion

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From Timewatch: Stonehenge Featuring: video, BBC

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

26 September 2008

Here's a clip from the Timewatch: Stonehenge programme, which you can share by embedding in your own website if you wish  Read more : From Timewatch: Stonehenge

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Britain's Forgotten FloodsProduction team

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

25 September 2008

Professors Simon Haslett and Ted Bryant have come across evidence for what they believe was a forgotten British tsunami. They think that The Bristol Channel...  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Britain's Forgotten Floods

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - StonehengeProduction team

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

22 September 2008

Two of Britain’s leading archaeologists and world-renowned experts on Stonehenge, Professor Tim Darvill and Geoff Wainwright, believe they have finally unlocked the mystery of the...  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Stonehenge

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Stonehenge Podcast Featuring: audio, Production team

By John Farren (Guest), The Timewatch team (Guest)

22 September 2008

John Farren, editor of Timewatch, explores the riddle of the stones with historians Tim Darvill, Susie West and Stuart Mitchell, in the Stonehenge podcast  Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

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Stonehenge: Timewatch Team diarymhaithaca under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

22 September 2008

Bringing something new to a story that everyone thinks they know: That's the challenge for the Timewatch team.  Read more : Stonehenge: Timewatch Team diary

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Debate: Killer CloudBBC

By The Timewatch team (Guest)

03 June 2008

An eruption in Iceland would have terrible consequences for the rest of Western Europe  Read more : Debate: Killer Cloud

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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Ten Pound PomsEssential Viewing

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28 January 2008

Timewatch recalled the time when Australia was so keen to attract immigrants, the state paid for their passage  Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Ten Pound Poms

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Debate: The Beatles

Comment posted by zz923803

19 May 2012

A really good British musician that I've noticed as up and coming, and really quite talented is Umar Khan. A piano player and great overall musician from London. Worth keeping a bookmark on him. Read more : Debate: The Beatles

Debate: The Beatles

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Debate: The first blitz

Comment posted by sp23

10 Oct 2010

I helped my mother, Kathleen Potter, to document her childhood memories. She was born in April 1915 and mentioned that her first memories of living in Bush Hill Park, Enfield, were of... Read more : Debate: The first blitz

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Unknown

12 Aug 2009 

I don't know that Stonehenge is any big deal if you are a working class fellow. I mean I am sure I could build a Stonehenge by myself if I had to. 
...I think modern... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

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10 Aug 2009 

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I don't know that Stonehenge is any big deal if you are a working class fellow. I mean I am sure I could... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Unknown

08 Aug 2009

Making a programme on Stonehenge that offers something new? Yay! BBC is levitating My Heel Stone and surfacing My Artefacts! ... Lord Jesus Christ Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

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07 Aug 2009 

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A REPLY TO BRIAN'S QUESTION: "How do you make a programme on Stonehenge that offers something new" Well - I... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Brian Thirtle

07 Aug 2009 

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Plasingli Apologies for the spelling and the O.S. scale. I must remember to do a speal check... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

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06 Aug 2009 

plasingli has started a thread discussing Stonehenge Podcast.
Hello again Plasingli History and... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by PROFESSORTHOM

03 Aug 2009

A privately funded satellite survey proves woodhenge to be a collection of six uniquely different geometric eggs, whose long axes all point at the moon and not the sun as previously thought. Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

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