Mayday
2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 1982
Timewatch
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
Cast
Peter FranceSelf - Presenter
John TusaSelf - Presenter
Michael PraedSelf - Narrator (voice) · Narrator
Andrew SachsSelf - Narrator (voice)
John LennonSelf (archive footage)
Paul McCartneySelf (archive footage)
George HarrisonSelf (archive footage)
Ringo StarrSelf (archive footage)
Larry KaneSelf
Tony BarrowSelf
Tony BramwellSelf
Maureen CleaveSelf
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Michael PreadNarrator
Chris HutchinsSelf
Ed FreemanSelf
Peter IbbotsonSelf
David SuchetSelf - Narrator (voice)
Michael CockerellSelf - Presenter
Gar AlperovitzSelf - Presenter
Antonia BenedekSelf - Presenter
Nick RossSelf - Narrator (voice)
Michael CulverRoger Bacon
Peter UstinovSelf - Narrator (voice)
John RoweSelf - Narrator (voice)
Jonathan MillerSelf - Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Le PrevostThomas More
Joanna David
Christopher Cazenove
David Swift
Paul RhysCicero
Owen TealeErucius
Mark McGannSextus Roscius
Christopher GoodChair of judges
Andrew GreenoughCapito
Antony ByrneMagnus
Penny DownieCaecilia
Richard RidingsElder Sextus
Gerard HoranCountry gent
Þorsteinn GunnarssonJon Steingrimsson
Richard HammondSelf - Co-presenter
Fitzroy MacleanSelf
Frances BarberAnnie Besant
Rosalind StockwellSelf - Narrator (voice)
Juliet StevensonSelf - Narrator (voice)
Simon Sebag-MontefioreSelf
Richard MitchleySelf - Narrator (voice)
Robin EllisSelf - Narrator (voice)
Christopher AndrewSelf - Reporter
Christopher FraylingNarrator (Voice)
Peter CarlisleSecretary of War Henry Stimson
Tom SmithTiro
Tony Benn
Ian Paisley
Laurence McKeown
John Hume
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