A Timewatch Guide
A Timewatch Guide is a TV show on BBC4. Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine changes in research covered in documentary television. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 2 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2025.
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A Timewatch Guide
Using the BBC film archives, Vanessa Collingridge explores how our view of Cleopatra has changed over the years, and how she has become lost amid myth, cliche and propaganda.
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Saul David uses the BBC archive to examine the most important stories related to World War II, and how our understanding of them has been redefined since the war ended.