Controversially: That Was the Year That Was TV Schedule
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Fri 9
Totally 1976: That Was The Year That Was — Controversially: That Was the Year That Was
A look back at key events in TV, film, showbusiness and politics, when I, Claudius, and Bouquet of Barbed Wire dominated the small screen and veteran presenter Bill Grundy encountered the Sex Pistols on a live news show. Featuring contributions by actor and comedian John Thomson, actress Claire Sweeney, journalist and politician Martin Bell, former politician Edwina Currie, and broadcaster Penny Smith. Narrated by Jan Leeming
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Sun 11
Controversially 1983: That Was the Year That Was — Controversially: That Was the Year That Was
A look back at key events in TV, film, showbusiness and politics, including the breakfast TV battle between the BBC's underdogs Frank Bough and Selina Scott and the firepower of TV-am's Famous Five. Motorists got hot under the collar over wheel clamps, racehorse Shergar was abducted, and thieves pulled off the heist of the century at a Brink's-Mat warehouse in London. Narrated by Jan Leeming and featuring contributions by John Thomson, Claire Sweeney, Steve Nallon, Janet Ellis and John Sergeant
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Fri 16
Controversially 1983: That Was the Year That Was — Controversially: That Was the Year That Was
A look back at key events in TV, film, showbusiness and politics, including the breakfast TV battle between the BBC's underdogs Frank Bough and Selina Scott and the firepower of TV-am's Famous Five. Motorists got hot under the collar over wheel clamps, racehorse Shergar was abducted, and thieves pulled off the heist of the century at a Brink's-Mat warehouse in London. Narrated by Jan Leeming and featuring contributions by John Thomson, Claire Sweeney, Steve Nallon, Janet Ellis and John Sergeant
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Sun 18
1979: Those Were the Days — Controversially: That Was the Year That Was
Jan Leeming narrates a look back at key events in TV, film, showbusiness and politics in 1979, including Monty Python causing a storm of protest with Biblical parody The Life of Brian, while The Kenny Everett Video Show upset moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse. It was a year dominated by industrial disputes and the so-called Winter of Discontent, with the upshot that Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister
