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   #1 - Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science

   S9:E14/3/2009

   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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   8.4/10(12 votes)

   #2 - The Golden Age of Liners

   S9:E210/22/2009

   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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   #3 - The Men Who Built the Liners

   S9:E310/29/2009

   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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   #4 - The Last Days of the Liners

   S9:E411/3/2009

   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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   7.6/10(19 votes)

   #5 - How to Win at Chess

   S9:E512/21/2009

   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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   7.3/10(12 votes)

   #6 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

   S9:E612/22/2009

   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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   #7 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words

   S9:E712/22/2009

   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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   7.5/10(8 votes)

   #8 - Bread: A Loaf Affair

   S9:E83/24/2010

   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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   #9 - Disappearing Dad

   S9:E96/29/2010

   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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