Episode list

Archive footage and personal testimony combine to bring regional stories from the past 50 years to life. Featuring a report on the quadruplets born to a Bristol woman in 1948 - the first to survive a birth by Caesarian section - focusing on the effects of growing up in the public eye.

The story of Russell Pascoe, the last man to be hanged at HMP Bristol, who was executed in 1963 for the murder of a Cornish farmer. His accomplice, Dennis Whitty, was also put to death at Winchester jail for his part in the crime. The programme explores aspects of the case and looks at the country's attitude to capital punishment on what was the eve of its abolition.

Profile of Mary Rand, dubbed the golden girl of British sport. Hailing from Wells, Somerset, her natural talent for the long jump earned her a chance to compete in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where she became the first UK woman to win a gold medal - as well as a silver for the pentathlon.

A recollection of the 1968 floods that hit Bristol and north Somerset, looking at how residents were affected by the rising water that came as a result of the worst rainstorms in 50 years.

Tales of life in the region during the early 1970s, focusing on the arrival of thousands of refugees from Idi Amin's brutal regime who were housed in abandoned army barracks in Somerset.

Examination of the events that led up to the three-day week and power rationing of 1973, when businesses were forced to close and lights went out across the country. The programme looks at the effect the crisis had on people and industry in the region - and the reversal of fortunes suffered by the Conservatives at the 1974 elections.

A look back at the construction of the first Severn Bridge, a revolutionary structure that inevitably spelled the end of the line for the Aust ferry.

Recounting the 1973 tragedy of a charter plane that left Bristol airport and crashed en route to Basel, Switzerland, leaving families from the region devastated when the majority of passengers were killed. Last in series.