NaN/100 votes#1 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2009
Documentary about the history of British food science meets a man who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and discovers how Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis.
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- 8.4/1011 votes
#2 - The Golden Age of Liners
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2009
Paul Atterbury travels around Britain finding out how the great ocean liners made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant.
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Men Who Built the Liners
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2009
Documentary looking at the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards of Scotland, where the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built.
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Last Days of the Liners
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2009
Documentary telling how, in the years after the Second World War and with national pride and prestige at stake, countries competed to launch the most magnificent passenger ships.
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- 7.6/1013 votes
#5 - How to Win at Chess
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 12/21/2009
In a programme showing how to play better chess, British grandmasters Dan King and Ray Keene go through a demonstration game from opening gambit to checkmate.
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- 7.3/1011 votes
#6 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/2009
A celebration of the life and work of Oliver Postgate, the man behind some of Britain's best-loved children's TV programmes, including Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/2009
Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
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- 7.5/107 votes
#8 - Bread: A Loaf Affair
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/2010
Documentary about the rise of the popular loaf in Britain. After the holy grail of affordable white bread was achieved, dietary experts began to trumpet the virtues of brown.
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Disappearing Dad
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 6/29/2010
Novelist Andrew Martin takes a wry look at the way fathers are represented in fiction and film, and finds that they tend to be depicted as marginal, loopy or entirely absent.
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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9
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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 9 Ratings Summary
"Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science" is the best rated episode of "Timeshift" season 9. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/2009. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Golden Age of Liners".