Shifty - Season 1 - Eps 1: Part One - The Land of Make Believe
The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it. When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs Thatcher. Encounter group. Ghosts of the Empire. Jimmy Savile. The Cheese and Onion computer. Video dating. Ian Curtis. Monetarism. Dead pilot. Stephen Hawking and Black Holes. National Front. Fat-shaming ventriloquist. Dub clash sound system. Party elephant. W****r on the line. Racist attacks. Bucks Fizz.
About Shifty
Title: Shifty
First Air Date: 2025-06-14
Last Air Date: 2025-06-14
Status: Ended
Rating: 1/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 5
Network: BBC iPlayer
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: A24, BBC
Synopsis
This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.
