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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.

The Timewatch Team diary about the making of the Wreckers programme.

Friday 1 June

The past week has been taken up with the online when the programme goes through several technical steps to ensure it is of tip top quality for broadcast. This includes the “dub”, where the sound is perfected, and the “grade” where the picture and colours are tweaked. The final thing today was the commentary recording when Michael Praed (ex Robin Hood!), the voice of Timewatch, recorded the programme’s commentary. The programme is finally finished. I think we are all pretty pleased with the result, and hope our viewers will enjoy the journey around our British coast as well as gaining a fascinating insight into coastal life through the centuries and understanding how modern-day lifesaving was actually born out of something more unsavoury – wrecking.

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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.