The BEST episodes directed by Elaine Shepherd
#1 - Great British Outdoors
BBC Documentaries - Season 2010 - Episode 42
Mud, midges, barbed wire - just why do us Brits love the great outdoors? In this nostalgic look at life for campers, twitchers, ramblers and metal detectors, Mark Benton examines the history of the British fresh air freak.
#2 - The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart
BBC Documentaries - Season 1997 - Episode 3
One-hour BBC documentary on avant-garde rock musician Captain Beefheart introduced and narrated by John Peel.
#3 - The Yorkshire Dales on Film
BBC Documentaries - Season 2010 - Episode 233
Using moving images from across the decades, this documentary goes on a short trip to one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, the Yorkshire Dales. Encompassing newsreels, documentaries and home movies, these rarely-seen archive gems come together to reveal all aspects of life in the Dales, from sheep farming to cheese making, railway lines to dry stone walls and hill runners to potholing.
#4 - The Great British Foreign Holiday
BBC Documentaries - Season 2009 - Episode 174
Mark Benton has been abroad, he knows all about it: 'The British are an island race - abroad is really abroad, not just across the border but actually over the horizon. It's far away - outlandish, exotic and scary. Frankly, we're terrified of it.' The Brits, foreign travel and all points in between - how we got there, what we did there and how we got back.