Transportation

The Story of the Bus 1 x 55 Minute programme

The Ubiquitous urban bus has been carrying passengers in British streets for over 160 years, since its early horse-drawn days in London. In modern times it has been unrivalled as a means of urban passenger transport since the demise of the electric tram. But the diesel bus now finds itself under attack as a source of urban pollution.

This programme maps the history and development of the bus in its social economic context, looking closely at the technology and design of it and its rivals.

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Great Liners 1 x 60 Minute programme

As the music from the dance-band drifts from the state room into the bracing night air, strolling couples idle romantically by the ship’s rails, gazing at the starlit sky. Using nostalgic archive footage, contemporary newsreel and stills, the programme dwells on the ships, their voyages and the passengers of the liner era.

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The Hindenburg 1 x 60 Minute programme

With archive film recordings, photographs, graphics and full interviews with surviving crew members, this is the story of the most famous airship in history, from its conception and construction to its untimely and catastrophic demise in 1937.

The largest flying craft the World has ever witnessed, the Hindenburg was a benchmark for luxury liners of the air. The image of the unfortunate Hindenburg on her spectacular destruction, crashing to the ground in a wall of flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, has become one of the most instantly recognisable images of the last century and is one of the world's greatest disasters. The famous radio broadcast transmitted live by an American journalist remains, to this day, one of the most memorable and emotive broadcasts ever made.

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The Concorde Story 1 x 60 Minute programme

This programme chronicles the remarkable history of Concorde’s development. The years of painstaking research at the frontiers of technology and design and the aircraft itself, one of the most elegant and graceful ever to sail the skies, is assessed in detail illustrating “the Concorde Experience” which for thousands of travellers remains the ultimate in air travel.

The Story of Aviation 1 x 70 Minute programme

Air travel has become part of our everyday existence - yet powered flight is still only a century old. This programme combines historic film footage of aviation milestones and record-breakers with the facts and figures behind their feats, from ballooning Montgolfier brothers to the Wright’s first powered hops at Kitty Hawk, the Spitfire to the supersonic era of Concorde and beyond. As flight embarks on a new century. The History of Aviation celebrates the men and machines that made it possible.

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