Miniseries (2022)
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Episodes 3
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Accident and Opportunity
October 22, 2022
• 1h 29m
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.
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Building the Audience
October 29, 2022
• 1h 29m
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.
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Shooting the Rapids
Season Finale
March 3, 2024
• 1h 27m
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.
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