Name: The House the '50s Built
Genre: Factual

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.

The House the '50s Built

Series 1

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

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Two whistleblowers who could bring down a criminal empire are under police protection, but when one is murdered, the team must ensure the second makes it to court.

Van Der Valk

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Documentary series. Shifting rains rewrite survival as pygmy elephants battle raging rivers, platypus flee flash floods, and a lioness uses a flood to hunt prey.

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.

Episode 4, The Garden

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