Timeshift S09E08 · Bread: A Loaf Affair

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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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1. 1 1. Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science2009-04-03 · 1h 0mDocumentary 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.
2. 2 2. The Golden Age of Liners2009-10-22 · 1h 0mPaul 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.
3. 3 3. The Men Who Built the Liners2009-10-29 · 1h 0mDocumentary 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.
4. 4 4. The Last Days of the Liners2009-11-03 · 1h 0mDocumentary 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.
5. 5 5. How to Win at Chess2009-12-21 · 1h 0mIn 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.
6. 6 6. Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films2009-12-22 · 1h 0mA 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.
7. 7 7. Clement Freud: In His Own Words2009-12-22 · 1h 0mDocumentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.
8. 8 8. Bread: A Loaf Affair2010-03-24 · 1h 0mDocumentary 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.
9. 9 9. Disappearing Dad2010-06-29 · 1h 0mNovelist 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.