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The BBC's flagship history series, from Gladiators to Genghis Khan, Bog bodies to Bloody Omaha, find out more in Timewatch.

Friday 11 May

Chris and Nick Packer [editor] have been in the edit suite for several weeks now chopping the film up, moving around sequences and trying to craft the story. It’s the hardest part of making a film and where the real story telling and creativity comes in. Meanwhile I – with the help of Caroline Rough [production coordinator] – have been sourcing stills and texts that we want to include in the film. Down in the Isles of Scilly, the Gibson family have a wonderful collection of beautiful black and white photographs of sailing shipwrecks taken in the early C20th, which they are kindly letting us reproduce. Tracking down some of the texts we want is proving quite hard as many of the books are obscure local histories and out of print.

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Timewatch is the world’s longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC’s flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.