Timeshift

Season 2, Episode 7

Episode Title: High Rise Dreams

Air Date: 2003-06-19

Overview:

Time Shift looks back at how a group of idealistic architects changed the face of council housing in Britain, inspired by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier and new materials, only to be thwarted by financial restraints, poor craftsmanship and Margaret Thatcher 's private ownership creed.