What We Were Watching
What We Were Watching is a documentary on BBC4. Join Grace Dent as she takes a fun-packed dash through the TV listings and heads on a televisual trip back in time. What fads, fashions and fails will she unearth? The program has been available since 2024. A total of 4 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2025.
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What We Were Watching
Grace Dent embarks on a televisual trip back in time to December 1995, serving up an irreverent look back at the festive viewing options that faced the nation in the past.
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TV critic, writer and 1980s addict Grace Dent unwraps the TV schedules for 1984 and finds it was a case of Orwell that ends well, on another festive fun-packed dash through the BBC’s archives.
Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.