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| Adventures In Junk | ...... |
| All For One! | ...ALAN DEIN returns to the GLASGOW roots of the famous military uniforms and pillbox hats. Are they still relevant to modern Britain?... |
| All Night Long | ...ALAN DEIN walks the neon-lit strip that is Hamburg's Reeperbahn in search of the singers, hustlers and performers who turned Hamburg into the cradle of British Beat in the late 50s.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...ALAN DEIN evokes memories for a generation of vinyl lovers.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...ALAN DEIN hears how London's East End Bangladeshi community forged new alliances to oppose racism in the 1970s and 80s.... |
| Automatic For The People | ...ALAN DEIN talks to people who once left their mark on vinyl by using auto-recording booths.... |
| Between The Ears | ...: ALAN DEIN explores the days of the sound postcard, when holiday memories were put on the gramophone, and he recreates an audio mailbag from these cards.... |
| Beware The Stare! | ...Re-uniting cast and crew from The Village of the Damned is just the beginning for ALAN DEIN as he goes in search of Midwich on film and in print.... |
| Born In Yemen, Forged In Sheffield | ...From the mountains of Yemen to the furnaces of SHEFFIELD's steel mill they came in their thousands, clutching a British colonies passport, wearing their only flannel suit and pursuing a dream of earning enough to return home and build a castle of their own. Now, nearly half a century on, ALAN DEIN explores the stories of those Yemenis who forged new lives for themselves in the harshest conditions: strangers in steel town.... |
| Day The Students Went Mad, The | ...ALAN DEIN retraces the forgotten events of November 1953, when students in Britain held demonstrations on a massive scale.... |
| Document | ...Inspired by a book he found at a jumble sale in an East London school, ALAN DEIN uncovers a chain of events which led to a mass pupils' strike in support of an inspirational teacher in 1971.... |
| Don't Hang Up | ...A phonebox rings in the middle of nowhere, anywhere. ALAN DEIN begins a series of random conversations with complete strangers. A moment shared, a life revealed, just don't hang up?! Is it a 'phone up or a 'phone out? With hundreds of thousands of numbers that could be anywhere, ALAN DEIN casts his line into a sea of souls and converstaions, who is out there today?... |
| Don't Mourn, Organize - The Judi Bari | ...She was part of the struggle to save the last majestic redwood forests from corporate annihilation. Then she was killed. ALAN DEIN explores her remarkable story.... |
| From Grime To Groceries | ...ALAN DEIN traces the surviving participants of a 1930s experiment that took hundreds of unemployed families and relocated them as market gardeners.... |
| Happy Hearts Club Banned | ...The Plastic People of the Universe are unlikely heroes. Relentlessly pursued and eventually jailed by the Czechoslovak Communist authorities, their fate sparked Vaclav Havel and the beginnings of the Velvet Revolution and inspired Tom Stoppard's new play Rock & Roll. In 2000, ALAN DEIN journeyed to Prague to hear their story.... |
| Howling Terror Mystery, The | ...Its ability to project sound over miles and miles verged on the mythical. The newspapers labelled it The Howling Terror and prophesised that its diabolical broadcasts would dominate the forthcoming twentieth century. And yet today the Howling Terror is forgotten. ALAN DEIN resurrects its strange story.... |
| Inside Track | ...ALAN DEIN heads for California to hear how the blond goddess was born, named and sold to a world hungry for the dream doll.... |
| Into The Abyss Call Of The Wild And People Of The Abyss | ...ALAN DEIN explores Jack London's contradictory visions of struggle and survival from the Abyss to the great White Silence.... |
| Into The Abyss | ...ALAN DEIN explores Jack LONDON's contradictory visions of struggle and survival from the Abyss to the great White Silence.... |
| Is It On? | ...ALAN DEIN ends his adventure with the microphone by considering the power of the microphone to reveal our secrets and absurdities. Everyone from the pranksters of Candid Microphone to the KGB have concealed their microphones from prying eyes and turned them into prying ears. It seems now the microphone can get anywhere from - the highest office to the sporting sanctuary of the batsman's crease.... |
| It's My Story | ...The Hudson family were stars of a Picture Post magazine article in the early 1950s: Mother Of 20 Children. It chronicled a day in the life of what was thought to be one of the largest families in the country - with fifteen surviving brothers and sisters. Fifty years on, oral historian ALAN DEIN has tracked down some of the descendants and hears about their experiences of life in what the magazine called 'an outsize family'.... |
| Keskidee, The | ...... |
| Life On Christmas Street | ...In 1946, the celebrated Picture Post visited Christmas Street in south-east London to capture the spirit of Christmas in postwar England. Now the street is gone. ALAN DEIN tracks down former residents to hear how their Christmases have changed, and he compares their seasonal memories with those of the people who live on today's Christmas Streets in Gillingham and Liverpool.... |
| Living Doll | ...ALAN DEIN in a rare interview with Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll, who died last month / As the ever-youthful Barbie celebrates her 40th birthday, ALAN DEIN travels to California to hear the true story behind the greatest body ever sold. He meets the creators of the toy company Mattel, and their daughter Barbara, the real Barbie that launched a billion dolls.... |
| Living Like This | ...Twenty years ago, art student Daniel Meadows set out in a converted double decker bus complete with darkroom to photograph the lives and faces of ordinary people living in a Britain he barely knew. Now he returns to some of those places and faces, journeying back through a vastly different Britain, and hearing how the lives of those he once photographed have changed. Reporter ALAN DEIN.... |
| Neighbourhood Watch | ...Presenter ALAN DEIN finds out how the postcode was introduced by the Post Office 30 years ago in order to speed up mail delivery.... |
| One Way To Necropolis | ...In search of a coffin ticket, a Victorian funeral train and the guardians of what was once the world's largest cemetery, ALAN DEIN retraces the route of the Necropolis Railway - from Waterloo to Woking - and uncovers the story of the station of the dead.... |
| Out Of Aden | ...Nearly 160 years of British rule unravelled rapidly amidst pain, recrimination and bloodshed, leaving bitter memories and a deep sense of betrayal on all sides. ALAN DEIN hears from British civilians, soldiers and ordinary Adenis about those last years and days of British rule and the coming of independence.... |
| Outsize Family, The | ...Fifty years after they were featured in a Picture Post article, ALAN DEIN tracks down the descendants of the Hudson family, which include 15 surviving siblings.... |
| Real Generation X, The | ...In 1964 two writers set out to understand the new "teenager". They called their subjects: Generation X and the ground-breaking book they produced was a first in pop sociology. Within its pages was the voice of Britain's newly disaffected youth, from aristocrats in blazers, to bikers in leather. The evangelical Christian Dr Billy Graham declared that Generation X was proof of the cataclysmic moral decline of the young. 40 years on, Generation X are close to retirement. ALAN DEIN tracks down the original participants and finds out how their lives have changed.... |
| Santa Tapes, The | ...ALAN DEIN unwraps the oral history of Santa Claus, hearing the true stories of those who have donned the red and white costume, from war-torn Hungary to the icy wastes of Alaska.... |
| Schwartz's City Sounds | ...ALAN DEIN visits Tony Schwartz's New York apartment, home to a remarkable collection of tapes providing sound chronicles of the city and its people.... |
| Unrecognisable Accounts Of The 20th Century | ...ALAN DEIN tours Britain - from a Festival of Britain show flat opposite the Millennium Dome to the Northumberland coast - to hear unexpected but real experiences of life over the last 100 years. / ALAN DEIN tours Britain - from a Festival of Britain show flat opposite the Millennium Dome to the Northumberland coast - to hear testimonies that will not appear in official chronicles or social and political histories of the century.... |
| Voices From The Reading Room | ...ALAN DEIN tracks down the painters, poets and penniless scholars who once haunted Whitechapel Library in East London.... |
| What About The Workers? | ...ALAN DEIN traces the history of the Workers' Educational Association as the organisation approaches its centenary year and finds out how it is still changing people's lives.... |
| World's Most Difficult Puzzle, The | ...In the early 1960s, a jigsaw puzzle caused a sensation in America. It was based on an abstract expressionist painting by the artist Jackson Pollock. His explosive drip paintings had divided Americans into bemusement and outrage - he was a genius or a charlatan. But the jigsaw was even more challenging than the original: it was proclaimed The World's Most Difficult Puzzle. ALAN DEIN pieces together this bizarre story.... |
| You Must Remember This | ...Oral history is everywhere. Life stories leap from the screen, out of the airwaves and off the printed page. Oral historian ALAN DEIN investigates.... |
| You're Entering The Twilight Zone | ...ALAN DEIN explores the classic American television series The Twilight Zone, as well as the life and imagination of its creator, Rod Serling.... |