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I Was There: The Great War Interviews
Detlef Siebert
Director
'I wanted to make a film about individual responses to extreme situations' - The director on using previously unseen interviews that never made it to air in the BBC’s landmark 1964 Great War series.
The Big Melt - How Steel Made Us Hard
Martin Wallace
Director
How a playful approach 'unshackled the archive from its typical function of illustrating history literally' in the Storyville documentary on BBC Four.
The Ladybird Books Story: How Britain Got The Reading Bug
Helen Day
Teacher
'I offered to give her a potted - or Ladybird - version of the history.' Ladybird enthusiast Helen Day on working with the television crew on the Timeshift documentary for BBC Four.
Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance
Mark Kidel
Director
'Material like this tells a story in a way that words cannot.' Documentary filmmaker Mark Kidel on working with Elvis Costello and his archivist.
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II: Restoring an era
Jonathan Wood
Colourist
How precious BBC archive footage was painstakingly restored to match the original broadcast quality of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
