Aired Friday June 25, 1:35am - 2:35amon BBC Four HD

Timeshift

Series 16 Episode 3: Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

`Timeshift' charts the evolution of the British postage stamp and examines how these sticky little labels became a national obsession. Like many of us, writer and presenter Andrew Martin collected stamps when he was young, and now he returns to that lost world to unpeel the history of iconic stamps.

Category
Documentary / History
Original air date
2016-11-14
Cast and crew
  • Andrew MartinHost