Episodes List
Ep.1 The Birth of the News
Air Date: 2011-08-18
For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world.
Ep.2 The Voice of Pathé
Air Date: 2011-08-25
The company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.
Ep.3 Entertaining Britain
Air Date: 2011-09-01
While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades.
Ep.4 Around the World
Air Date: 2011-09-08
In the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds.