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      Season 1 – Back in Time for School

      2019 Documentary History List
      80% 5 Reviews Tomatometer Pupils and three teachers discover how much life at school has changed over the past 100 years. Read More Read Less

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      Anthony T BBC is up themselve by showing children from the upper middle classes at their grammar schools. I was born in 1939 and lived through that time. The majority of the children in the country were poor and I was one of them. I have published my memoirs of that time and it's nothing like your Disney version "Back in time for school. My memoirs are true to fact, titled "Out of London" Anthony Thomas. Amazon Kindle. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/07/22 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Episode 1 Aired Jan 3, 2019 The smell of coal burners wafts down the corridor, and a portrait of Queen Victoria hangs proudly in the school hall as the class discovers what it was like for the lucky four percent of children able to attend school in the Victorian era. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 10, 2019 The time-traveling pupils and teachers return to their school and enter the interwar years of 1918 to 1939 in which students have lessons in Esperanto and the teacher struggles to master the gramophone. Details Episode 3 Aired Jan 17, 2019 Deportment, debate and even dancing are on the menu in the post-war era of rock 'n' roll. Details Episode 4 Aired Jan 24, 2019 The class enters the 1960s with lessons separated into subjects deemed suitable for each gender, including an introduction to typewriting for the girls and bricklaying for the boys. Details Episode 5 Aired Feb 7, 2019 The pupils and teachers arrive in the 1970s at a comprehensive school where the boys and girls are finally mixed with lessons about commerce and air travel. Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 14, 2019 The pupils and teachers arrive in the 1980s, where discipline, rules and uniformity return. Details Episode 7 Aired Feb 21, 2019 The pupils and teachers arrive in the 1990s, embracing girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur. Details Episode 8 Aired Feb 28, 2019 The pupils and teachers return to school for their very own reunion party. Details

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      Chitra Ramaswamy Guardian As ever, it's the young people who restore the faith. Rated: 4/5 Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Michael Hogan Daily Telegraph (UK) This glorified reality show wasn't terribly enlightening, but the sheer likeability of the participants made for an engaging pop-historical romp which was tastier than tapioca, more beneficial than brimstone. Rated: 3/5 Jan 7, 2019 Full Review David Sexton London Evening Standard Back In Time For now seems a peculiarly antiquated form of programme-making, itself a historical curiosity more than a going concern. Jan 7, 2019 Full Review Jane Rackham Radio Times As well as sharing their favourite memories with presenter Sara Cox and social historian Polly Russell (what's the betting that school dinners will feature but cross-country runs won't?), they also explore what the education of the future might be like. Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Victoria Segal Sunday Times (UK) It was a reminder that progress isn't nice and linear, that things can go backwards as well as forwards. Jan 7, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Season Info

      Director
      Laura Ellings, Rebecca Whyte, Claire Martin, Kate Taunton, Francis Welch
      Executive Producer
      Emily Shields
      Network
      BBC
      Genre
      Documentary, History
      Original Language
      English (United Kingdom)
      Release Date
      Jan 3, 2019