S1988 E1 • Evidence of Neglect

Three reports which examine the ways our historical record in films and in books and maps, is under threat from neglect, damage and mistreatment.

Première diffusion : 6 janvier 1988

S1988 E2 • Wars of the Word

Two reports on the control and effect of mass communications in the past.

Première diffusion : 3 février 1988

S1988 E3 • The Man in the Iron Mask

Report on the mystery surrounding the identity of a prisoner who died at the Bastille in Paris in November 1703. He had been imprisoned for 34 years and had be forced to wear a mask.

Première diffusion : 2 mars 1988

S1988 E4 • The Hunger Winter

Report on events in Holland in 1944, when the Nazis cut off all food supplies in retaliation for Dutch support of the Arnhem landings.

Première diffusion : 30 mars 1988

S1988 E5 • Dishonour and Death

Two films on the darker side of British history over the past 150 years. "The Diary of an English Spy", looks at the training of secret agents at a Spy School before WW1. "and One Law for the Poor", on the 1832 Anatomy Act which denied the poor the freedom to bury their dead, and supplied medical schools with human bodies for study.

Première diffusion : 1 juin 1988

S1988 E6 • Shreds of Evidence

Report on recent radiocarbon dating tests on the Turin Shroud, believed by millions to be the burial cloth of Jesus. Programme follows the preparation of the Shroud, and film of the tests carried out in Zurich.

Première diffusion : 27 juillet 1988

S1988 E7 • Shadow of the Ripper

Report on the legend of Jack the Ripper, revealing for the first time the true contents of the police and Home Office files on the case, and drawing on the expertise of historians and of those who have encountered today's killers.

Première diffusion : 7 septembre 1988

S1988 E8 • A Woman's Story

Dramatised documentary about Annie Besant, the 19th century social reformer and campaigner for the use of contraception, who led the matchgirls strike from the Bryant and May factory.

Première diffusion : 5 octobre 1988

S1988 E9 • Vision of a Conqueror

Story of the Glorious Revolution of 5th November 1688, when William of Orange landed at Brixham to take the English crown.

Première diffusion : 9 novembre 1988

S1988 E10 • Bukharin and the Terror

Report on the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show trials. Gorbachev has openly denounced this action, and Bukharin's widow Anna has been allowed to talk about her husband for the first time in 50 years.

Première diffusion : 7 décembre 1988