Time To Remember

Time To Remember - Episode 1: Pioneers of Aviation

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This episode tells the story of the groundbreaking men, women and machines who took to the skies in the first half of
the 20th century and includes footage of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk; President Theodore Roosevelt becoming the
first head of state to fly in an aeroplane; the German Zeppelins; the R101 disaster; Imperial Airways at Croydon Aerodrome;
and Charles Lindbergh's first solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St Louis in 1927.

Time To Remember - Episode 2: Stage and Screen




Archive footage from the theatres, music halls and cinemas of the 1920s and 30s combines with characterful
voiceover to give a glimpse of the entertainment industries in their early 20th century golden age.
It includes footage of Charles Laughton applying his own stage make-up, chorus line auditions and rehearsals
in the West End, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks visiting Europe, and Alfred Hitchcock's first talkie,
1929's Blackmail.

Time To Remember - Episode 3: Casualties of War




Lesley Sharp is the modern-day narrator linking together the best of the newsreel footage from the
1950s Time to Remember series illustrating the scale of the sacrifice made by ordinary people during
the 20th century's two world wars. Includes footage of recruitment and training for the Great War;
soldiers going over the top in the trenches; celebrations at the end of World War One; the evacuation
of 300,000 men from Dunkirk in 1940; and Hurricanes taking off during the Battle of Britain.

Time To Remember - Episode 4: A Woman's World




Newsreel footage and original 1950s Time to Remember voiceover by Joyce Grenfell and Dame Edith Evans
offer an insight into the ways women's roles in society changed through the first five decades of the 20th century.
Featuring footage of suffragette protest, including Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby; working women during the
First World War; Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis; and something of the fashions of the 20s and 30s.

Time To Remember - Episode 5: Pushing the Boundaries




The endeavour, innovation and technological breakthroughs of the first half of the 20th century
are illustrated through newsreel footage and the 1950s narration of the original Time to Remember
documentary series. Includes footage of tanks on the battlefields of the Great War; Scott's expedition
to Antarctica; Mallory and Irving on Everest; Roosevelt at the Boulder Dam; and a
car testing its very necessary roll-bar.

Time To Remember - Episode 6: The Royal Families




The fortunes and fates of the European royal dynasties during the first half of the 20th century
are traced through footage from a variety of episodes of the 1950s newsreel series Time to Remember.
Narrator Lesley Sharp links sequences showing an era of war, revolution, assassination and abdication.
Includes footage of Queen Victoria at her diamond jubilee celebrations; Victoria's funeral; Edward VII out hunting;
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; Victor Emmanuel of Italy; Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany; Franz Josef of Austria in Sarajevo;
George V's coronation, silver jubilee and funeral; King Albert of Belgium; the future Edward VIII walking in Tokyo
with the future Emperor Hirohito; King Alexander of Yugoslavia being assassinated in Marseilles in 1934; King Boris
of Bulgaria; Edward VIII's 1936 abdication statement; George VI's coronation; and Queen Elizabeth II as a child.

Time To Remember - Episode 7: Nations at Play




Lesley Sharp narrates as original newsreel and 1950s voiceover are used to illustrate how Britons
spent their leisure time during the first half of the 20th century. Includes footage of Henley regattas,
frolics at the seaside, the Victorian fairground, horse riding in Hyde Park, Royal Ascot in 1919,
Deauville in the 20s and the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.

Time To Remember - Episode 8: The Pursuit of Peace




Material from the 1950s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story
of the struggle to maintain peace in the decades after the Great War. The politicians'
high hopes for improved international relations through the League of Nations were
gradually eroded by expansionism and aggression across the globe.
Includes footage of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles; the first Armistice Day
parade in 1919; Ramsay MacDonald addressing the League of Nations in 1924; Neville
Chamberlain's visits to Germany to negotiate with Hitler; the liberations of Rome and
Paris in the summer of 1944; the signing of the German surrender in 1945; and the signing
of the United Nations charter.

Time To Remember - Episode 9: Crime and Prohibition




Newsreel footage and voiceover from the original 1950s Time to Remember documentary TV series tells
the story of the media circus that surrounded notorious gangsters and other Depression-era criminals
in the United States of America. This is encapsulated in the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's
baby - the 'crime of the century'. Includes footage of rumrunners trying to outrun the US Coastguard
and beat prohibition; mobster Jack 'Legs' Diamond; John Dillinger behind bars; Al Capone at the racecourse;
and coverage from inside the courtroom during the Lindbergh baby murder trial of German illegal
immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

Time To Remember - Episode 9: Crime and Prohibition




Newsreel footage and voiceover from the original 1950s Time to Remember documentary TV series tells
the story of the media circus that surrounded notorious gangsters and other Depression-era criminals
in the United States of America. This is encapsulated in the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's
baby - the 'crime of the century'. Includes footage of rumrunners trying to outrun the US Coastguard
and beat prohibition; mobster Jack 'Legs' Diamond; John Dillinger behind bars; Al Capone at the racecourse;
and coverage from inside the courtroom during the Lindbergh baby murder trial of German illegal
immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

Time To Remember - Episode 10: Civilians at War




The impact of two world wars on the UK's civilian population is told through
newsreel footage and voiceover from the original 1950s series Time to Remember.
Here are the war stories from the home front. Includes footage of circus elephants
being used as farm animals during the Great War; a pram protected against gas attack;
footage of Londoners bedding down in the Underground during World War Two;
and the celebrations at the end of both global conflicts.

Time To Remember - Episode 11: The Need for Speed




The story of the groundbreaking men, women and machines who, on land and sea and in the air,
went furthest and fastest in the first half of the 20th century, told through newsreel footage
and voiceover from the original 1950s series Time to Remember. Includes footage of Malcolm Campbell
in Bluebird; the first Monaco Grand Prix; the Spitfire; Amelia Earhart; and Jean Batten, the first
person to simultaneously hold the solo flight records between the UK and Australia in both directions.

Time To Remember - Episode 12: In Times of Need




Clips and narration from different episodes of the 1950s Time to Remember
series offer insights into the hardships and privations of the 1920s and
30s on both sides of the Atlantic. Includes footage of the bombing in Wall
Street in 1920, preparations for the 1926 UK General Strike and images of
the American dustbowl in the 1930s.