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Exploring The Past

Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:6
Last broadcast:03/06/2020 at 14:20
June 2020
11:00

Season 1, Episode 5 (Kirsty And The Nhs)

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15 year old Kirsty discovers how the new National Health Service saved her grandmother's life when a new mobile x-ray unit picked up the early signs of TB in a random test.
May 2020
10:00

Season 1, Episode 4 (Elliot And Immigration)

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15 year old Elliot from West London finds out how his grandfather, Philip, stowed away on a cargo ship from Ghana, to build a new life, alongside thousand of migrants, brought in to help build the new post war Britain.
April 2020
11:00

Season 1, Episode 2 (Nicole And London's East End)

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15 year old Nicole visits London's East End where her grandfather, Steve, worked as photographer for a local newspaper.
February 2020
10:00

Season 1, Episode 1 (Mitchell And The Mods)

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Mitchell, from Walsall, interviews his grandmother, Jacki, who was a mod in the 60's. Now aged 75, Jacki re-visits former dance hall Bloxwhich Baths, and reveals her memories of life as a post war teenager.
September 2017
11:00

Season 1, Episode 6 (Sophie And The Collieries)

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Sophie, from York, follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, Roger Hampson, who spent his life painting the industrial area he grew up in.
March 2016
11:00

Season 1, Episode 3 (Amba And Women's Work)

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15 year old Amba explores the role of women in the immediate post war years. She talks to her great grandmother Betty, who worked in a food processing factory.
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