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Timewatch — Season 9
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0150mAn Edge of ConspiracyWas the last prisoner of Spandau Prison in Berlin really Rudolf Hess, one time deputy to Adolf Hitler, or a doppelganger put in his place by the Nazis before his incredible flight to Britain in 1941? Claims have been made in recent years that the body of the man who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 at the age of 93 bore none of the chest wounds suffered by the real Hess in the First World War. Christopher Andrew talks to wartime witnesses and forensic experts in a personal investigation to establish whether the strange case of Rudolf Hess is a genuine example of the conspiracy theory of history.Jan 17, 1990Jan 17, 199050m0265mNapoleon's Last BattleTimewatch explores the myth of the man who had a vision of a united Europe 175 years ago.Feb 21, 1990Feb 21, 199065m0360mHungary: The End of SilenceThe Communist party of Hungary has been forced to surrender its monopoly on truth, but it still controls access to the official archives. Any truths about the past 40 years must, therefore, come from the people themselves: witnesses, participants and victims, whose accounts are being gathered by historians, sociologists and film-makers. The history they recall has already had its effect on the pace of reform.Mar 21, 1990Mar 21, 199060m0450mAccounts of a Forgotten ArmyIn 1945 the German State and its army disappeared. Recently, harrowing tales from Germans who were prisoners in American camps at that time have begun to emerge. A Canadian author has alleged that nearly a million German soldiers died while prisoners of the Allies. His figures are disputed, but did the American authorities, with images of concentration camps fresh in their minds, set out to punish Germans?Sep 5, 1990Sep 5, 199050m0550mHelping the Police with Their EnquiriesIn the USA it is becoming standard practice for police to call in archaeologists and anthropologists with their skills at excavation and bone analysis to help them unravel murder cases. Now a British police force is looking at what the academics can offer them.Sep 19, 1990Sep 19, 199050m0650mThe Sipan AffairIn January 1987 a band of grave robbers broke into a royal tomb at Sipan in northern Peru. The treasure they plundered was worth millions. Within months it had been smuggled by way of London to Los Angeles. Timewatch examines the international trade in antiquities, and uncovers a tale of ancient gold and modern greed.Oct 3, 1990Oct 3, 199050m0750mI Don't Want to Be Remembered As a ChairOn the shore of Sabbathday Lake in Maine lives a religious community of nine men and women. They are the last practising Shakers - members of a sect once persecuted for its dissenting beliefs and celibate lifestyle. Granted unique access, Timewatch explores their struggle to maintain their religious and historic identity while furniture made by previous generations of Shakers breaks saleroom records around the world.Oct 17, 1990Oct 17, 199050m0850mAll the King's JewsSeven hundred years ago tomorrow - on 1 November 1290 - the Jews were expelled from England. Christopher Andrew unfolds the extraordinary story of England's medieval Jews and discovers the English roots of European anti-Semitism.Oct 31, 1990Oct 31, 199050m0950mA War Far from HomeIn 1914-15 138,000 Indians fought on the Western Front. More than a quarter were casualties. We know what the ordinary soldier felt about the war in France because his letters home were translated and censored. The programme tells the story of those men who fought and died for a country whose language, culture and traditions were alien to them.Nov 14, 1990Nov 14, 199050m1050mOne of the Reasons WhyCharles Wheeler tells how the colonial policy of the post-war Labour government led to the start of a 30-year war in Vietnam.Nov 28, 1990Nov 28, 199050m1149mWhite Man's Grave, Black Man's GraveOn January 23 1915, black insurgents broke into a house on the biggest plantation in British colonial Nyasaland. The rebels killed the white manager, cut off his head and carried it home. The planter's name was William Livingstone. The rebel leader was the black Baptist pastor, John Chilembwe. Two men trapped by a clash of civilizations.Dec 12, 1990Dec 12, 199049m50Episode 5094Episode 94
