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Status
Returning Series
Release
2002 - Present
Seasons / Eps
17 / 184
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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.
90 Cast Members
Tony Benn
1 Episodes
Denis Lawson
Self - Narrator
3 Episodes
Jonathan Miller
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
1 Episodes
Dan Cruickshank
Self - Architectural Historian
1 Episodes
Sid Waddell
Self - Darts Commentator (archive footage)
2 Episodes
Eric Bristow
Self - Darts Player
2 Episodes
John Lowe
Self - Darts Player
2 Episodes
Keith Deller
Self - Darts Player
2 Episodes
Phil Taylor
Self - Darts Player
2 Episodes
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Narrator (Voice)
1 Episodes
Arthur Scargill
Self
2 Episodes
Harry Shapiro
self
1 Episodes
George Melly
self
1 Episodes
Don Letts
self
1 Episodes
Rosie Boycott
self
1 Episodes
Caroline Coon
self
1 Episodes
Doris Lessing
self
1 Episodes
Zadie Smith
self
1 Episodes
Chris Serle
self
1 Episodes
Barry Bucknell
self
1 Episodes
