7.0/109 votes#1 - How to Be a Good President
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2008
Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to define the qualities which make a great US president.
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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2008
Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Wordsworth and Dickens to The Railway Children.
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- 8.3/1010 votes
#3 - Last Days of Steam
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2008
Documentary that tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why it quickly came to an end.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - How to Write a Mills and Boon
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2008
To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them, a task that ends up being harder than it looks.
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- NaN/100 votes
#5 - How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/2008
Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solvers, while fans including Prunella Scales explain why they enjoy them.
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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - The Comic Songbook
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/2008
Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie, and reveals the skill involved in creating them.
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Fashion versus the BBC
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 1/22/2009
A team of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hilary Alexander looks at the relationship between British fashion and the BBC.
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The North-South Divide
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/2009
Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the decline of industry, and if it can be closed.
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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 8
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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"How to Be a Good President" is the best rated episode of "Timeshift" season 8. It scored 7/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/2008. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film".