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The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9

Every episode of Timeshift Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9!

The Best Episodes of Timeshift Season 9

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.
  1. Background image for The Golden Age of Liners
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #1 - The Golden Age of Liners

    S9:E2

    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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  2. Background image for How to Win at Chess
    7.7/10(18 votes)

    #2 - How to Win at Chess

    S9:E5

    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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  3. Background image for Bread: A Loaf Affair
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Bread: A Loaf Affair

    S9:E8

    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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    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

    S9:E6

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

    S9:E1

    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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    #6 - The Men Who Built the Liners

    S9:E3

    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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    #7 - The Last Days of the Liners

    S9:E4

    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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    #8 - Clement Freud: In His Own Words

    S9:E7

    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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    #9 - Disappearing Dad

    S9:E9

    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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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The Golden Age of Liners" is the best rated episode of "Timeshift" season 9. It scored 8.4/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/22/2009. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "How to Win at Chess".