Shooting The Past
Shooting The Past is a TV show on BBC4. A fight to save millions of memories. A picture library is threatened with closure – but the staff won't give up. Stephen Poliakoff drama starring Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Shooting The Past
Concluding Stephen Poliakoff's drama serial. Marilyn rushes to Oswald's house to find that he has taken an overdose. She discovers key clues to Anderson's past.
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Curator Marilyn has to sack the library's resident expert, Oswald, and begin the task of finding a buyer for the whole collection.
A three-part drama serial by Stephen Poliakoff about a picture library facing closure. An American property developer arrives in London with some bad news for a photo archive.