Timeshift
Season 1, Episode 16: A Brief Interlude
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A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in during technical breakdowns and gaps in the schedules. The most famous ones showed a potter's wheel, a cat playing with a ball of wool and a horse-drawn plough.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Grunwick Strike
Episode 2
The Cannabis Years
Episode 3
The Writer's Trade
Episode 4
The Sailing Sixties
Episode 5
Attenborough: The Controller Years
Episode 6
he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man
Episode 7
A Shadow Over Europe
Episode 8
Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
Episode 9
Notting Hill Riots
Episode 10
What Have the Germans Done for Us?
Episode 11
Greenham Common Changed My Life
Episode 12
Car Crazy
Episode 13
The Magic Roundabout Story
Episode 14
Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream
Episode 15
Gurus
Episode 16
A Brief Interlude