Timeshift
Season 5 Episode 18 - The British Way of Death
7.0 ?
2002
Documentary
Daniela Nardini narrates a documentary exploring why the British funeral has acquired a new spirit of informality. Today's departed are just as likely to be sent on their way to the strains of Robbie Williams as they are to a classic hymn. A bewildering array of coffin styles is available, with even an environmentally-friendly wicker casket for the organically-minded. Are we improvising new rituals to fill a more profound vacuum in our secular society?
Episodes in Season 5
1
MPs on the Box
60 min
2
Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe
60 min
3
England Away
60 min
4
Court on Camera
60 min
5
Apes in Hollywood
60 min
6
Star Men
60 min
7
Black and White Minstrels Revisited
60 min
8
Too Much, Too Young
60 min
9
The Jitterbug Years
60 min
10
Play It Again
60 min
11
The Battle for the Ashes
60 min
12
The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith
60 min
13
The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain
60 min
14
Lost Road: Overland To Singapore
60 min
15
A Study in Sherlock
60 min
16
Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes
60 min
17
Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now
60 min
18
The British Way of Death
60 min
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