Season 1

1. The Birth of the News

2011-08-18 · 60m

For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world.

2. The Voice of Pathé

2011-08-25 · 60m

The company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.

3. Entertaining Britain

2011-09-01 · 60m

While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades.

4. Around the World

2011-09-08 · 60m

In the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds.