Timeshift

Season 2, Episode 1

Episode Title: The​ Great​ British​ Seaside​ Holiday​

Air Date: 2003-05-05

Overview:

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since. Interviewees including Jonathan Meades, Martin Parr and Bill Pertwee explain the way that the seaside has always been the place we all visit to lose our inhibitions and reveal a different side to ourselves.