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应用科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2009 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d4b70

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  • 英文片名 :Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

  • 英文系列名:

  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英语

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :DVD

  • 发行时间 :2009

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it’s a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places. Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients – and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before going under the knife…presented by the medically trained Michael Mosley

Just over 100 years ago, cutting into the brain was a terrifying prospect for both patient and surgeon. They could expect the result to be the surgeon bloodied and defeated, and the patient dead. From freak accidents involving crowbars through the skull to notorious lobotomies with icepicks, this programme reveals how, through mishap and misadventure, brain surgery has become the life-saving discipline it is today.

With a family history of heart problems, presenter Michael Mosley takes a personal interest in these pioneers, who teetered on the scalpel-edge between saviour and executioner. Michael has a go at heart surgery, meets a man with no heartbeat and witnesses an operation where the patient is cooled until their brain stops and has all of their blood sucked out.

These days, transplant surgery saves thousands of lives every year and almost everything, from heart to eyes, can be replaced. But in the beginning, transplants killed rather than cured, because surgeons didn’t understand that they were taking on one of the most efficient killing systems we know of – the human immune system.

Thought of as a modern phenomenon, it actually started over 400 years ago with a spate of botched nose jobs. Since then, surgeons have been entranced with the idea that not only could they fix the body, but could even fix our sense of self-esteem. Presenter Michael Mosley undergoes both 16th-century bondage and 21st-century botox in his journey of discovery.

Presenter Michael Mosley finds out how the early days of surgery were dark and barbaric, when the surgeon’s knife was more likely to kill you than save you, and invasive medicine generally meant being bloodlet by leeches to within an inch of your life.


宗教类纪录片,Others 频道 1979 年出品。


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  • 中文片名 :西藏: 佛教三部曲

  • 中文系列名:

  • 英文片名 :Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy

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  • 电视台 :Others

  • 语言 :英语

  • 时长 :约 134 分钟

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :1979

The Internationally Acclaimed Classic– Now available on DVD for the first time, this documentary was hailed as a masterpiece following its first release in 1979. Digitally re-mastered, with new material and a new commentary, Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy takes you on an intimate journey deep into the heart of an ancient Buddhist world. Four years in the making and hailed as a cinematic masterpiece in 1979, writer/director Graham Coleman’s three-part feature has been unseen for over 20 years. Now, the film has been reworked into a single presentation, complete with digital restoration of the original material and new commentary. Part 1 is an intimate portrait of the Dalai Lama as a spiritual and temporal leader. Part 2 journeys deep into the mystical inner world of monastic life and presents an authentic revelation of tantric Buddhism, with commentaries by the great 20th century master Dudjom Rinpoche. Part 3, photographed in the awesome landscapes of Ladakh, is a meditation on impermanence and the depiction of the monastery’s moving ritual response to a death in the community.


自然科学类纪录片,National Geographic 频道 2008 年出品。


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http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/the-numbers-game/

  • 中文片名 :数字游戏

  • 中文系列名:

  • 英文片名 :The Numbers Game

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  • 电视台 :National Geographic

  • 地区 :美国

  • 语言 :英语

  • 时长 :45 min / EP

  • 版本 :DVD

  • 发行时间 :2013

The Numbers Game Money. Sex. Marriage. Mortality. In each episode, data scientist Jake Porway tackles one of life’s most daunting topics revealing the surprising science behind them. From mind-bending stats, hilarious man on the street experiments, and interactive game play, this show delivers the answers to life’s mysteries and gives you the tools to help take charge of your destiny and change your life forever.

Scientists now believe that your genetic makeup accounts for only about 25 percent of your potential life expectancy and that means 75 percent of the rest of your life is up to you! Host Jake Porway helps you figure out when you’re going to die – or, at least, find out more about your life expectancy! See how the hand you’re dealt at birth can affect how long you can live and what you can do to change your odds. Want to know how? You’ll just have to play The Numbers Game to find out.

What would you do for a million dollars? Find out the stats that affect your odds for getting rich. Data scientist and host Jake Porway explores how you can grow your bank account through entertaining experiments, cutting edge facts and real-life scenarios. Think that failure, procrastination and napping will stop you from becoming a millionaire? Think again. We’ll give you the numbers and clues to your odds of making a million.

From your co-workers to grating sounds to the obnoxious guy texting in his car ahead of you, we all have our list of what drives us mad. The world around us may be crazy, but do we have to be? Fasten your seatbelts as host, and data scientist Jake Porway explores the science and numbers behind daily stresses, everyday annoyances and pet peeves that can drive us crazy. We’ll help you see how to read the signs of whether you are losing it and give clues, news and the answers on how to deal.


文化艺术类纪录片,BBC 频道 2011 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017svd6

  • 中文片名 :

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  • 英文片名 :America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine

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  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :美国

  • 语言 :英语

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2011

Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. In the 40s, 50s and 60s it caught the spirit of America as it blossomed into a world superpower and its influence on American people was unparalleled. Fashion photographer Rankin celebrates the work of Life’s legendary photographers including Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke- White, who went to outrageous lengths to get the best picture. He travels across the USA to meet Bill Eppridge, John Shearer, John Loengard, Burk Uzzle and Harry Benson, who have shot the big moments in American history - from the assassination of Robert F Kennedy to the Civil Rights struggle and the Vietnam War. These photographers pioneered new forms of photojournalism, living with and photographing their subjects for weeks, enabling them to capture compelling yet ordinary aspects of American life too. Rankin discovers that Life told the story of America in photographs, and also taught America how to be American.


自然科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2013 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0160nxk

  • 中文片名 :丛林英雄

  • 中文系列名:

  • 英文片名 :Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero

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  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英语

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2013

英国演员 比尔.贝利追随 弗雷德·华莱士[(1823~1913),英格兰博物学家,其物种起源学说与达尔文的相似] 的足迹,艾尔弗雷德·华莱士是比尔贝利崇拜的一位丛林英雄,他再次来到婆罗洲[印度尼西亚和马来西亚共有]和摩鹿加群岛( 印度尼西亚东北部马鲁古群岛)

Bill retraces Wallace’s explorations from the jungles of Borneo to the exotic islands of Indonesia, encountering orangutans, flying frogs and extraordinary bugs, on a mission to understand how Wallace came up with the theory of evolution, and to win him the recognition he deserves.

Bill ventures to Indonesia’s remote Spice Islands. Wallace was a bug collector who survived pirate attacks, boating disasters and malarial fevers to change the way we see life on earth. Independently of Charles Darwin, he came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. But he has since been forgotten. In the second of this two-part series, Bill encounters boggle-eyed tarsiers, monkeys with mohicans and spectacular birds of paradise on his mission to understand how Wallace cracked evolution.


自然科学类纪录片,Channel 4 频道 2005 年出品。


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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/animal-madhouse

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  • 英文片名 :Genesis: Where Are We Coming From?

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  • 电视台 :Channel 4

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英语

  • 版本 :DVD

  • 发行时间 :2005

The cycle of life of a handful of different animals is captured on film in a whole new way in this documentary. Using special motion-control photography equipment, Genesis allows filmgoers to view animal behaviors which are too small, too slow, or too difficult to normally be seen with the naked eye, including a chick hatching its way out from inside an egg, jellyfish drying into nothing under the heat of the sun, or a snake slowly swallowing prey bigger than itself. This footage is accompanied by narration from Sotigui Kouyaté, who uses simple props and easily understandable analogies to explain the science behind what its shown on screen. Genesis was directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, who previously created another acclaimed scientific documentary, Microcosmos.


社会科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2009 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p71fz

  • 中文片名 :维多利亚时期的农场: 圣诞篇

  • 中文系列名:

  • 英文片名 :Victorian Farm: Christmas

  • 英文系列名:

  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英語

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2009

Victorian Farm Christmas looks into the lives of 19th century farmers and shows you how to make traditional gifts, food, games and decorations. The Victorian farmers - Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn - return to the Acton Scott estate in Shropshire to celebrate a traditional Victorian Christmas.

The Victorian farmers - Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn - return to the Acton Scott estate in Shropshire to celebrate a traditional Victorian Christmas. There’s an enormous amount of farm work to be done on the estate in the lead-up to the festive season, including the hay harvest, to make food for the animals over winter. Having been thwarted last time by rain, the team anxiously monitor the weather. Peter travels to the Royal Agricultural Society’s annual show with sheep expert Richard Spencer to choose a new ram for the flock; back at the farm, Ruth makes mincemeat for the Christmas mince pies. She also prepares for the hoped-for hay harvest celebration with some essentials - bread and butter.

The Victorian farm team tackle their biggest project yet: restoring the village blacksmith’s forge. First they must make bricks to restore the chimney

  • a full five day and night process in which the farmer gets no sleep. As winter marches on and Christmas nears, they must source a Yule log: firewood to burn for the Twelve Days of Christmas. At the cottage, Ruth winter-proofs the house, making a paper blanket and remedies for chilblains, rheumatism, coughs and colds It is also a chance to begin preparations for the Christmas banquet in earnest - in particular, a very Victorian invention, Christmas crackers. Ruth enlists the help of Christmas cracker historian Peter Kimpton..

Christmas is coming to Acton Scott, but first there’s a huge amount of preparation to do. Ruth Goodman and food historian Ivan Day try their hand at making a Christmas pudding using the same methods as Bob Cratchit’s wife in A Christmas Carol. Meanwhile, Alex and Peter light the forge for the first time to re-shoe the farm workhorse Clumper - the first time a horse has been shod at this forge in over five decades. Alex goes in search of a Christmas tree for the banquet, while Ruth and Peter head for the Victorian town of Blists Hill for Christmas shopping. At the cottage, Ruth meets Debbie Bamford to dye an array of colourful Christmas ribbons to decorate the tree and the presents that sit beneath it. Finally it’s time for the Christmas meal in the estate’s School Hall. With a rapturous toast to Queen Victoria and a quick trip to the cattle shed to wassail the animals, day turns into night and the drunken Victorian parlour games commence. The next morning it’ll be time for the team to bid a fond farewell to Mr Acton as they depart Acton Scott for good.


社会科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2009 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00grv47

  • 中文片名 :维多利亚时期的农场

  • 中文系列名:

  • 英文片名 :Victorian Farm

  • 英文系列名:

  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英語

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2009

Historical observational documentary series following a team who live the life of Victorian farmers for a year. Wearing period clothes and using only the materials that would have been available in 1885, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn are going back in time to relive the day-to-day life of the Victorian farmer. The project is based on the Acton Scott estate in Shropshire - a world frozen in time, lost in Victorian rural England. Its buildings and grounds are cluttered with antique tools and machinery collected by the Acton family, who have lived on the estate since the 12th century. Working for a full calendar year, Ruth, Alex and Peter are rediscovering a lost world of skills, crafts and knowledge, assisted by an ever-dwindling band of experts who keep Victorian rural practices alive.

The team move into a Victorian smallholding on the Acton Scott estate that has not been used in nearly half a century. Their first task is the restoration of the cottage. As incoming tenants, they help thresh the previous summer’s wheat crop, their first experience of steam-powered machinery. Alex attempts to sow a wheat crop using horse-power. Ruth and Peter install a range in the cottage and take a trip to the canals to load up on coal. It’s time for the apple harvest, so Alex and Peter turn their hand to making cider. Ruth explores the challenges of Victorian cooking by making preserves ready for winter and cooks her first meal on the range. And the team must learn shepherding skills the hard way as the first livestock arrive on the farm - a flock of Shropshire ewes

As autumn ends, winter proofing begins in earnest: essential work if the livestock and crops are to make it through the cold and frost. The team stock up on animal feed using a host of Victorian machinery. Peter faces his biggest challenge so far: building pigsties. Ruth tackles the laundry, a gruelling four-day process that Victorians tackled weekly. The ram arrives on the farm; ensuring he gets the ewes pregnant is the only way to produce lambs in the spring. The team take delivery of a Shire horse. There is a traditional Victorian Christmas to look forward to, including decorations, cookery and church carols. They celebrate Christmas Day with the friends they have made over the past four months.

New Year arrives and the farm needs emergency repairs. So the team goes back to DIY basics, with the help of the woodsman, the blacksmith and the basket maker. Ruth has a go at some traditional potions and remedies. When the wheat crop comes under attack, it is time for some pest control, Victorian style, as Alex and Peter join a pheasant hunt. Alex goes out catching rabbits with a team of Victorian poachers. And with spring around the corner, the first baby animals are ready to be born

It is spring and there are lambs and pigs to be delivered, which means Alex and Peter need to master animal midwifery. A prized ewe is in danger and a lame horse may jeopardise vital work on the farm. The team turns to Victorian science in a bid to save their struggling crops. If they succeed, they will have something to celebrate at the May Day fair. If they fail, all their hard work will have been in vain. It is make or break time on the Victorian Farm.

In this episode, the team embarks on a trip by steam train, Ruth begins a tough task in the dairy, Alex tries his hand at beekeeping, the sheep are sheared using the latest time-saving technology, and the lengthening summer days allow Alex and Peter to try out the new Victorian sport of cricket. It is also time for the hay harvest, weather permitting

The team’s year on the farm is coming to an end, but first they have to bring in the wheat harvest, the most crucial part of the Victorian Farm calendar. Alex and Peter must get to grips with a contraption that was state-of-the-art technology in Victorian times, the reaper binder. Ruth explores the craft of straw plaiting and discovers the art of printing. The boys try their hand at a home brew. The team bring in the wheat harvest with the help of some extra labour, and celebrate with a raucous harvest festival.


社会科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2009 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse2/

  • 中文片名 :

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  • 英文片名 :Coal House at War

  • 英文系列名:

  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英語

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2009

This fascinating living history series sees three families return to Stack Square, transporting them back to 1944 and the Second World War, to live as coal miners’ families. Having given up their comfortable lives, they are faced with the dangers and many hardships of war. The families experience all aspects of life as it was in 1944. The men work long, punishing days down the coal mine, followed by tending the Stack Square shared allotment as people were encouraged to ‘Dig for Victory’ to overcome food shortages. They also have to endure the arduous Home Guard training, each getting a taste of army life and discipline. The women have to juggle their relentless household chores with compulsory work at the munitions factory, undertaking a variety of different tasks for the war effort. The children, meanwhile, have their own worries with daily doses of cod liver oil and the ever present threat that their pet rabbits may be served up for dinner. Joined by evacuees and the Bevin Boys, young lads sent by the Government to work the mines, the families struggle to cope with strict regimes, rationing, air raids and blackout fines but rediscover the strong community spirit and courage that war evoked.

Coal House is back and this time its war. Deep in the Welsh valleys, three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life in World War II. Will the community survive without a microwave, mobile, fast car or fast food?

The families settle into the punishing routine of 1944. The men face a tough training period to equip them for life at the coal face and in the Home Guard. The children cope with school and discipline, and the women face the dangers of the munitions factory as well as running the home.

Three Welsh families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life in World War II. It’s not just the coal-mining men who are finding it hard to reach their targets. The women are struggling to impress at the factory and the children find it tough to keep the school standards.

At the end of the first week in the Coal House, how are the children coping with no playstations or mobiles to occupy them? There’s a strict school system to contend with and a daily dose of cod liver oil to swallow. Will they pass the school cleanliness inspection, and how will they get on with the animals at Stack Square?

The weekend provides a break from the pressures of work. While the men head off for football training, the women get their hair done Forties-style. Back at the Coal House there are new arrivals

The women take on a secret mission at the munitions factory, while the men struggle down the mine. Just as it seems things are looking up with a variety show, the families are brought face to face with the grim realities of war.

The new arrivals are settling in as the second week in the Coal House draws to a close. Home sickness is rife, school exams are looming, and the Bevin Boys are learning to cook. But who will give the best performance in the variety show?

Tensions are running high, the women reach a munitions milestone and there’s panic underground. The Bevin Boys take their first tentative steps underground and what little confidence they have soon begins to dwindle as the reality of the task ahead starts to dawn on them. The pressure is on to succeed, but their inexperience leads to some choice words from the other Stack Square men.

It’s been a rollercoaster week for the Coal House families. The families let their hair down and party like it’s 1944, some of the Stack Square chickens end up on the menu and there’s evacuation drama for the families.

With victory nearing, the pressure is on to fuel the frontline in the mining community of the Coal House. Will the men in the mine and the women at the munitions factory hit their deadlines? The scholarship exam looms at school, and a testing day in the mud leads to promotion for one of the Home Guard

It is time for the men to hang up their lamps, the women to take off their uniforms, and the evacuees to return to their parents in the city - but not before everyone gets in the swing at the community dance for a final send-off.

The children take the dreaded school exams as they spend their last week in the square. Who will receive the coveted trophy, and how will they feel about leaving their wartime lives behind?

Dance House 1944 takes a look at how people faced the music and danced during the Second World War despite bombs falling and bad news from abroad. Veterans of the fighting front and the home front describe how important dancing was for them and chart the changes in fashion from strictly ballroom to jitterbug and jive.

In 2008, a group of young people joined three Welsh families in BBC Wales’s landmark living history series Coal House at War. They were transported back in time to 1944 to face the hardships of life in a World War II mining community. This programme looks back at the experiences of the four Bevin Boys and the young evacuees, and reveals how they felt when they returned to modern life.

In 2008, three Welsh families took part in an extraordinary social experiment

  • they were transported back to 1944 to experience life in a World War II mining community. In this programme, we take a look back at the Griffiths family’s time in Stack Square and reveal how Rose, Hywel, Mandy and the boys felt when they returned to modern life.

In 2008, the Paisey family from Cardiff took part in BBC Wales’ landmark living history series Coal House at War. For a month, the Paiseys and two other families were transported back in time to 1944 to face the hardships of life in a World War II mining community. In this programme, we see how Natalie, Stephen and their four children coped with their time in Stack Square and how they felt once they returned to modern life.

In 2008, the Tranter Davies family from Merthyr Tydfil took part in BBC Wales' landmark living history series Coal House at War. For a month, they were transported back in time to 1944 to face the hardships of life in a World War II mining community. In this programme, we look back at their time in Stack Square and reveal how Laura, Geraint and the five girls felt when they returned to modern life.


社会科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2009 年出品。


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbrhm

  • 中文片名 :

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  • 英文片名 :Coal House

  • 英文系列名:

  • 电视台 :BBC

  • 地区 :英国

  • 语言 :英語

  • 时长 :约 59 分钟/集

  • 版本 :TV

  • 发行时间 :2009

This living history series transports three families back to the south of Wales’s coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers' cottages without heating, running water, washing machines, TV and computers, and of course, for the men, there are long days down the mines.

In this first programme of a major new series, three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in the Welsh Valleys, 1927. Over the series we discover whether the community will survive without a microwave, mobile, fast car or fast food. Life is already getting tough for the community with the men on first shift at the coal face and the women working round the clock to keep the home fires burning.

As the families settle into the punishing routine of a 1927 mining community, the men face a tough training period to equip them for life at the coal-face, the children cope with school and discipline and the mams get to grips with mangles, ranges and the first tin bath.

It’s not just the coal-mining men who are finding things hard. Their wives start to feel the pinch of life in 1927, with mouths to feed and a cleaning routine to stick to. There’s some light relief, however, as the Cartwrights, Phillips and Griffiths families enjoy a rare night out and celebrate a special birthday

The pressure is on for the families living in the Coal House during week two, with the mothers working fourteen hour days to keep their houses and families in order. The children are coming to terms with their 1927 schooldays and the men are working at the coal face to make ends meet.

For the men, things are not getting any easier at the pit, with new skills to master and performance-related pay. The mams and children enjoy Halloween, but the expense involved has left the families on the verge of the financial precipice. For the children, exams at school are just around the corner, while the men live the reality of the 1927 coalfield where pit closures were the norm and poor wages all too common. Can the Griffiths, Cartwright and Phillips mams keep the fires burning, and more importantly, keep smiling?

For the mining men of Coal House, things are not getting any easier at the pit with new skills to master and performance related pay. The mams and children enjoy Halloween but has the expense involved left all the families on the verge of the financial precipice?

In the final week the heat is on as the families fight for survival. Washing pit clothes, baking and cleaning has taken over the lives of the mothers and daughters and the fathers and sons are exhausted and struggling at the coal face to earn a crust. But the community keeps their spirits high as they look forward to their return to the 21st century.

For the children of Coal House, exams at school are just around the corner. The men live the reality of the 1927 coalfield, where pit closures were the norm and poor wages all too common. Can the Griffiths, Cartwright and Phillips’ mams keep the fires burning, and more importantly, keep smiling?

At the end of week two, money has become tight; food is short, and the families pull together to survive. Halloween brings some scary fun for the children but the mams and dads are worried about how to pay the butcher! Washing coal-black pit clothes, baking and cleaning has taken over their lives of the mothers and daughters. The fathers and sons are exhausted but struggle at the coal face to earn a crust. But the Coal House community keeps their spirits high as they begin to look forward to their return to the 21st century.

The families add preparation for the final concert to their exhausting daily life. As the Coal House community thinks about its goodbye to life in 1927, will the children be saying goodbye to the pigs and the mums goodbye to the tin baths? The drama shows no sign of stopping in the Coal House! As the experiment reaches its final week, the Cartwrights, Griffiths and Phillips families prepare to return to normal life. Who would have thought that three weeks in a Coal House could have created so many new friends, so much fun and so much pain?