Season 9

1. Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science

2009-04-03 · 60m

Documentary 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. The Golden Age of Liners

2009-10-22 · 60m

Paul 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. The Men Who Built the Liners

2009-10-29 · 60m

Documentary 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. The Last Days of the Liners

2009-11-03 · 60m

Documentary 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. How to Win at Chess

2009-12-21 · 60m

In 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. Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

2009-12-22 · 60m

A 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. Clement Freud: In His Own Words

2009-12-22 · 60m

Documentary which draws together interviews with the late Clement Freud - Liberal MP, cookery expert, newspaper columnist and author - from across four decades.

8. Bread: A Loaf Affair

2010-03-24 · 60m

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.

9. Disappearing Dad

2010-06-29 · 60m

Novelist 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.