A Timewatch Guide
A Timewatch Guide is a TV show on BBC4. Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine changes in research covered in documentary television. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 4 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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A Timewatch Guide
Using archive film, Vanessa Collingridge examines the life of Elizabeth Tudor - her upbringing, her conflicts with her enemies and her greatest victory against the Spanish Armada.
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Using 40 years of BBC archive footage Dan Snow charts how the Mary Rose was discovered, excavated and raised, and what the latest research has revealed about the ship and her crew.
Series 2
Saul David uses the BBC archive to examine the most important stories related to World War II, and how our understanding of them has been redefined since the war ended.
Using archive film, Alice Roberts uncovers how the monument of Stonehenge has been interpreted, argued over and debated by some of Britain's leading historians and archaeologists.