This episode focuses on the kitchen, where free-standing cupboards, mangles and larders were replaced by fitted units, twin-tubs and refrigerators - and the all-important food processor.

Episode 1, The Kitchen

Factual

Documentary

Celebrating the science behind the inventions and innovations that transformed the way we lived and catapulted an exhausted, post-war country into the modernity of 1950s Britain. Professor Brendan Walker sets out to discover the ingenuity and life-changing technology behind the inventions that took drab post-war Britain and launched it into a Technicolor-drenched world of the future.

The House the '50s Built

Series 1

Exploring the inventions that took drab post-war Britain and launched it into the future.

In this episode engineer Brendan Walker focuses on the living room, which saw the introduction of the television set, wallpaper paste and vinyl emulsion, and the curvy dining chair.

Episode 2, The Living Room

Brendan Walker explores post-war changes in the bedroom, where key inventions helped the 1950s child to become a teenager.

Episode 3, The Bedroom

In this episode Brendan Walker ventures outside to explore how inventions and innovations improved people's leisure time in the 1950s.