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Miniseries

3 episodes · 2022

  1. 1Accident and Opportunity

    22 Oct 2022 · 1 hr 29 min

    The eyewitnesses and participants in the BBC’s early history recount some of the triumphs and disasters as new frontiers of broadcasting were mapped out – often by accident rather than design.

  2. 2Building the Audience

    29 Oct 2022 · 1 hr 29 min

    BBC TV’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked, and staff from the BBC’s monitoring service explain the role they played in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  3. 3Shooting the Rapidsfinale

    03 Mar 2024 · 1 hr 27 min

    The story of how the BBC struggled to be impartial at critical moments in British history and how it handled social changes in Britain after the Second World War.