0:00:02 > 0:00:04Meet the Ashby-Hawkins family.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07For one summer, they're giving up the trappings of their modern lives
0:00:07 > 0:00:09and travelling back in time
0:00:09 > 0:00:12to live through 50 years of British weekends.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18Steph, Rob, Daisy and Seth
0:00:18 > 0:00:22will experience a radical transformation in how we spend our leisure time.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25- I'm free!- From the formal...
0:00:25 > 0:00:28- I feel like I'm going to a wedding.- ..to the frivolous.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30- We're going on holiday. - From do-it-yourself...
0:00:31 > 0:00:33..to doing almost nothing.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35You've turned into Wham!
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Starting in 1950...
0:00:37 > 0:00:41- Oh, my...!- ..their own home will be their time machine.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43It's 1961!
0:00:43 > 0:00:47Fast-forwarding them through a new year each day.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49What on earth are you doing?
0:00:49 > 0:00:51We're making a massive dartboard.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53It's beige!
0:00:53 > 0:00:55There's a telly up in the corner, as well, look.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57As they discover how a social...
0:00:59 > 0:01:01..technological...
0:01:01 > 0:01:03- What's that? - ..and spending revolution...
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Oh, my God!
0:01:05 > 0:01:08..has transformed our free time for ever.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10- Are you ready?!- BOTH: Yeah!
0:01:10 > 0:01:12- Last time...- Wahey!
0:01:12 > 0:01:16..the '80s opened up a whole new world of leisure.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20What will the technology-driven '90s mean for the family's spare time?
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Oh, yes!
0:01:23 > 0:01:24It's a Game Boy.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36# You can't touch this
0:01:37 > 0:01:39# You can't touch this...
0:01:39 > 0:01:41It's the next leg of our time-travelling adventure.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43# You can't touch this...
0:01:43 > 0:01:47The Ashby-Hawkins' chock-full-of-chintz 1980s' home
0:01:47 > 0:01:49has had a very '90s makeover.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51# Break it down
0:01:51 > 0:01:54# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
0:01:54 > 0:01:56# Oh, oh, oh, oh...
0:01:56 > 0:01:58'I'm back with social historian, Polly Russell,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01'to launch the Ashby-Hawkins headlong into the decade.
0:02:03 > 0:02:04# Stop, Hammer time! #
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Well, this is some very nice colour coordination.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Clearly, there's an element of reaction to the '80s excess and vulgarity.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14I think that it's a particular sort of moment
0:02:14 > 0:02:17in which people have access to taste.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19So where that had been the preserve of being an architect
0:02:19 > 0:02:23or a graphic designer, suddenly, taste becomes democratised.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26With that baffling, ubiquitous poster of pebbles.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Where do they get those from?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30These are one of those pictures that you just saw in so many homes.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Mass-produced, buy them in IKEA.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35One of the other things you notice in this room is that again,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37the encroaching technology.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40It'll be interesting to see what effect the technology has.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42The early '90s, they'd probably be in here watching videos.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45That's still reasonably new, although it was an '80s thing.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49- And over the course of the decade, it'll start to change.- Yep.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56By 1990, the boom years were over
0:02:56 > 0:02:58and there was a looming threat of recession.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01But with more women than ever in full-time work
0:03:01 > 0:03:03and increased use of credit cards,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06the average family were spending more on leisure than ever before,
0:03:06 > 0:03:10something that's reflected in the Family Expenditure Survey.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Over 10,000 families a year took part in this government study,
0:03:15 > 0:03:20recording their spending on everything from clothes to computer games.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27The Family Expenditure Survey gives us this really unique insight
0:03:27 > 0:03:29into what ordinary people are spending their money on.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32And we've had the data analysed for the 1990s
0:03:32 > 0:03:36and what you see is that things like CD players, microwaves,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39dishwashers, those are what everybody has.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42This is where the cost of food is driven down,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45the cost of electronic goods is so much cheaper than it's ever been.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47What people are now spending their money on is
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- things like video games... - Like this fellow here, for example.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54And he's spending £100, a sixth of his income on video games.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56That could have just been a heavy week for gaming,
0:03:56 > 0:03:58or that could be typical.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Another category that starts to get analysed in the 1990s is mobile phones.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05So this data shows us the moment
0:04:05 > 0:04:07when we all start to get mobile phones.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And I don't think we had any idea then
0:04:09 > 0:04:12how much having mobile phones would change our lives.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Is that you, or me(?)
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Everything the Ashby-Hawkins do in the 1990s
0:04:21 > 0:04:23will be guided by the survey.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27I don't remember a great deal of the '90s.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30It was a lot of festivals, a lot of dancing, um... Yeah.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Yeah, it's a bit of a blur.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36'I'm just wondering if the '90s have got great technology.'
0:04:36 > 0:04:39I'm hoping I'll have some stuff that is my own stuff
0:04:39 > 0:04:41and nobody else can use it.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44I was born in '99, six months into '99,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47and I count myself as a '90s child.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50So I am very excited about the '90s.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00- Oh!- Oh, wow!
0:05:00 > 0:05:03This is so different!
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- It's brilliant! - STEPH LAUGHS
0:05:05 > 0:05:07It's, like, super colourful!
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- There's a telly up in the corner, as well, look.- Oh, yeah.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- I love...- And there's a sofa in here as well, look.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14It's like a... That's unusual.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Sofa. That's a bit new. - It's the centre of the home.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20This is the place where people come and chill.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23- I love that clock! - That clock is quite cool!
0:05:23 > 0:05:24It's awesome, isn't it?
0:05:24 > 0:05:28It's got the starts of an IKEA sort of look about it, hasn't it?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Ooo, look, almost a mobile phone.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32All: Ohhhhh!
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Cordless. It's cordless.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36You can probably go two feet outside the front door with it.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38- Kitchen done!- '90s lounge.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Wow!
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- Ooooo!- Whoa!- Interesting.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45- ROB LAUGHS - Um...
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Very '90s. Wow!
0:05:47 > 0:05:50This three thing in a row was quite popular, wasn't it?
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Three balls there, three of those, three elephants.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It's quite designed, isn't it? This is actually thought about.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02I have to say, it's not to my liking. I even preferred the '80s.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06- Really?- Yes.- Really? No!- Oh, God! - No!- I don't know why.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- Hello, Giles.- I'm not sure whether you look like Oasis or Blur.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20You look like some terrible, or wonderful, indie band.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Still working full-time, you've become a bit more new mannish.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- You'll get out in the kitchen now. You'll be able to cook.- Yes!
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Seth, technology, which I think you've identified as rubbish to now,
0:06:30 > 0:06:32- will start to get recognisable to you.- Nice.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35And sort of useful and possibly addictive.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37So, here's your manual. DOORBELL
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Ya-ha! MUSIC: Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
0:06:40 > 0:06:41It's time for your first upgrade.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43'More than any other decade, the '90s is the one
0:06:43 > 0:06:47'where technology will change how we spend time together.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49'I've arranged a delivery to kick off the decade
0:06:49 > 0:06:52'and give the Ashby-Hawkins their first upgrade.'
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Take this thing last.- OK.- Move through the big things upwards.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Thank you.- Thank you very much. - Enjoy yourselves.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- I hope life improves. - Excellent, thank you very much.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Cheers.- Woohoo! Let's get stuck in.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04'90s entertainment technology has gone from the shared
0:07:04 > 0:07:05'to the personal.'
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- There's a DVD.- CD.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- Discman!- Aw!
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Discman! I had a Discman!
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I think after the excesses of the 1980s and having it all,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17there's a possibility the Ashby-Hawkins
0:07:17 > 0:07:19will find the '90s a rather subdued decade.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22But of course, it was one that was quite slow to get started
0:07:22 > 0:07:25and I know there are big changes on the way.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27One, two.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30What's the difference between that... Oh, it plays! Look.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33We've got a TV in the kitchen, we've got a TV in the lounge.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Where's the third telly going to go?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Well, I'm thinking maybe, against what we normally would do
0:07:38 > 0:07:41in the modern days, maybe it can just go in your bedroom.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- SHE GASPS - Oh, his little face!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Am I not getting anything?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Can I just say, I don't feel any sympathy for you whatsoever.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I'm going to go and put this in my bedroom.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Can we get a photograph of you before you go?
0:07:53 > 0:07:54So we can remember you by it.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00'In 1960, 30% of homes were without a television.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02'By the end of the '90s, more than half of children
0:08:02 > 0:08:03'had one of their own.'
0:08:06 > 0:08:08- Cool.- Out with the old.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12'Upgrade was the buzzword of the decade and electronic gadgets
0:08:12 > 0:08:14'would become almost disposable.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19And the reason families like the Ashby-Hawkins could afford
0:08:19 > 0:08:20the latest technology?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Three little words -
0:08:22 > 0:08:23made in China.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Cheap labour and the eightfold expansion of
0:08:28 > 0:08:30global container shipping in 20 years,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33meant Chinese manufacturers could drive down the cost
0:08:33 > 0:08:34of electronic exports.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42In the late '60s, a colour TV cost the equivalent of £3,000.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44By 1990, they were less than £200.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52As well as all that technology, I've left them with another classic
0:08:52 > 0:08:53'90s form of entertainment -
0:08:53 > 0:08:56a role-playing murder mystery dinner party game.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00"But remember that no-one will prove to be quite what they seem."
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Dun, dun, dun!
0:09:02 > 0:09:04They were so popular in the early '90s,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07that one maker sold 100,000 sets a year.
0:09:07 > 0:09:13It talks about setting the mood and setting the scene,
0:09:13 > 0:09:18what music you should be playing, dinner menu and wine.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22And we need red and white and beer.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24And plenty of it. It says that.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Rob's been dispatched to the off-licence,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32but in the early '90s, another option was to go on a booze cruise.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- NEWSREEL:- Vive le plonk! British supermarkets are
0:09:36 > 0:09:39crossing the Channel to cash in on the dash for cheap drink.
0:09:41 > 0:09:4430 years earlier, a day trip to France to go shopping
0:09:44 > 0:09:46would have been unthinkable.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48But in the '90s, nine out of ten passengers crossed the Channel,
0:09:48 > 0:09:52bought duty-free booze and got straight back on the boat.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Meanwhile, Steph's in the kitchen preparing the pasta part of
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Pasta, Passion And Pistols.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I've never done a murder mystery before.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07This is the first time in the experiment we've had
0:10:07 > 0:10:10friends round for dinner. We've had lunches, we've done party food,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12but not the sort of sit down, grown-up thing.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15So, yeah, I'm really looking forward to it, actually.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- BOTTLES CLINK - Aw, listen to that sound.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19Sound of success, that is.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26With recession looming and a ready supply of cheap alcohol,
0:10:26 > 0:10:28staying in was the new going out.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Hello! Good evening!
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Dinner parties were a way to impress your friends
0:10:35 > 0:10:37without splashing out.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39And we drank more, too.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Would you like red or white? - Red, please.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44In the 1950s, average wine consumption was
0:10:44 > 0:10:46four pints per head per year.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49By the '90s, it had risen to 25 and a half.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59All that wine helped you get into character.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03You can't see what you are, stupido.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07THEY LAUGH
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- ITALIAN ACCENT:- It is very bad. If the son has no respect
0:11:09 > 0:11:12for his father, he does not learn right from wrong.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Murder would be nothing to such a boy.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Even though Papa...
0:11:17 > 0:11:19THEY LAUGH
0:11:19 > 0:11:22..never listened to me or tried to learn...
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I have no idea what they're doing in there.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29It's probably really embarrassing, so I don't want to know.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36When I was younger, all my friends had TVs in their rooms
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and I was never allowed a TV in my room
0:11:38 > 0:11:40cos my mum would be like, "No, no, no, no."
0:11:40 > 0:11:42So, now I've got a TV in my room, I am so happy.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44My sister's got one and there's a TV in the lounge
0:11:44 > 0:11:47and there's a TV in the kitchen
0:11:47 > 0:11:48and I'm the one without a TV!
0:11:56 > 0:11:58- BOTH:- Ooh!
0:11:58 > 0:12:00It's another day and for the Ashby-Hawkins,
0:12:00 > 0:12:01a whole new year.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04It's a lot of gadgets actually, isn't it?
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Just for one meal, there's kettle, toaster, coffee machine...
0:12:10 > 0:12:12juicer.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Four different gadgets for one meal.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Come on. - All right!- We're going to be late.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19I'm coming, I'm coming.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Got to switch all the gadgets off.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29I've sent Rob and Steph to a destination
0:12:29 > 0:12:31on the brink of becoming a major '90s hang-out.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39In the 1990s, chains like Fitness First and LA Fitness
0:12:39 > 0:12:40hit the High Street.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Why jog around your local park when you could pay to join
0:12:45 > 0:12:47a private gym?
0:12:47 > 0:12:51And enjoy everything from aerobics to personal training.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52You know, I fall apart.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Where is those two people I like?
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Oh, my God.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Oh, my goodness. I need your body, you two.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Yep, I know. I am the man, I'm here. How are you?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Eight minutes to. Yes, it is time to waken up
0:13:03 > 0:13:05because Mr Motivator is back.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Here we go. All right, let's get marching on the spot.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Rob and Steph's instructor started out as a personal trainer
0:13:10 > 0:13:13before finding fame on breakfast TV, where he introduced
0:13:13 > 0:13:16three million viewers to the joys of working out.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18All right, pick it up and down.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21So, here we are in the '90s.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Gym business - huge business.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Every single fad came along. But it was all to do with the fact that
0:13:25 > 0:13:27you could make so much money from it.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29You know, when we look at stepping, for example,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32that was a big thing in the '90s. Now, how are you at stepping?
0:13:32 > 0:13:36- It's hard.- I've never stepped. - You've never stepped?- Never stepped.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37From the top, you ready?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- Are you ready?! - BOTH:- Yeah!
0:13:39 > 0:13:41We're ready! Everybody go, "Hoo-ah!"
0:13:41 > 0:13:43- Hoo-ah!- You got it!
0:13:43 > 0:13:48After five, six, five, six, seven, eight, go!
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Oh, wrong leg, sorry!
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Left leg.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Left leg.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54Right leg.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57It's OK. It's all to do with rhythm, my darling.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00You see, look at him.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02He's so Fred Astaire.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03He's got all the rhythm! Here we go.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07So, right leg goes up. Right then left.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Exercise was no longer just a leisure activity,
0:14:10 > 0:14:12it was a whole new leisure industry.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14You're doing good!
0:14:14 > 0:14:16As the fitness market boomed, the fight was on
0:14:16 > 0:14:20to find the next money making exercise equipment fad.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22The step was a top seller.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- ALL:- Ow, ooh!
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Yes, yes, yes!
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Other big hits were the ab roller and the Thighmaster.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Because there was so much demand for anything to do with
0:14:35 > 0:14:37fitness and health, here's a classic case
0:14:37 > 0:14:40of where demand was outstripping supply.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43In fact, they ran out so many times because people believe
0:14:43 > 0:14:44those adverts.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Go, go, go!
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Go! Quicker!
0:14:47 > 0:14:50We're on a mission here! We want to get as fit as we can!
0:14:50 > 0:14:51What's your problem?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53OK, now you should feel it working the chest area.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56This won't give you more, but it may help you to hold on
0:14:56 > 0:14:57to what you've got!
0:14:57 > 0:14:58Which is not very much!
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Let's go. Four more.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04By 1998, the fitness industry was worth more than a billion pounds.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07In part, because almost 70% of us were paying for a gym membership
0:15:07 > 0:15:08we didn't use.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Move it!
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Come on, give them a look. Whoa, that one!
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Come on, give them a hard look!
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Oh, yes!
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Good for you guys, yeah? Thank you so much for you time.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- Thank you so much.- Cheers, OK.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22- Thank you so much.- Bye.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Oh!
0:15:26 > 0:15:28I'm knackered.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30HE GROANS
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I think we fooled him enough.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38I found it comical that all these gadgets that were on sale
0:15:38 > 0:15:42throughout the '90s and now in contemporary life,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45actually a lot of them are just useless.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Although, I will be buying one of those ab machines.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53NEWS CHANNEL INTRO MUSIC
0:15:56 > 0:15:58A clear victory for the Conservatives.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02They become the first party this century to win four elections
0:16:02 > 0:16:03in a row.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06It's 1992 and there's company at the breakfast table.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08'..defeated by the voters of Bath.'
0:16:08 > 0:16:10I'm watching the telly, shh.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12With a TV in every room, you could have it with your breakfast,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15lunch and dinner and even in your bed.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17'Will Mr Kinnock resign?'
0:16:17 > 0:16:20We seem to be speaking a lot less this morning.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23- It's cos the box is on, isn't it? - The telly's on.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26But in the early '90s, most of us only had
0:16:26 > 0:16:27terrestrial television.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29DOORBELL
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Door.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34- Ah! - Ta-dah!
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Steph, Giles is here.- Come in.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Not just Giles, but Giles...
0:16:38 > 0:16:40- Wow.- Whoa.- ..with new TV channels.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43You've got a satellite dish. You're going to get
0:16:43 > 0:16:46international excitement - football, European films(!)
0:16:46 > 0:16:48THEY LAUGH
0:16:48 > 0:16:50It's bigger than I thought it was. It's huge, isn't it?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Yeah, yeah. It's going to cover your house.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Can you put it on your roof? Will the neighbours mind?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56- Do you mind?- No, not at all. I don't mind.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59I'm sure it will enhance the look of the house greatly.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06The Family Expenditure Survey shows that people
0:17:06 > 0:17:10were prepared to fork out for a satellite dish.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Like this man from North Yorkshire, who spent £110 on his.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Satellite television was a cut-throat market,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23but in '92, Sky hit on a winning formula -
0:17:23 > 0:17:27purchasing broadcast rights to the newly formed Premier League.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33By the end of the year, 1.1 million new Sky Sports subscribers,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36like Rob's mate KP, were happy to pay around £18 a month
0:17:36 > 0:17:40to sit on their own sofa watching their own television.
0:17:41 > 0:17:46The FA Premier League, live only on Sky.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51We didn't have Sky at home, but I had a girlfriend
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and the dad had it and every Sunday round there was so exciting
0:17:54 > 0:17:57when it first came along. Nowadays, I don't think kids could imagine
0:17:57 > 0:17:59that there wasn't football on the telly.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00I just thought it's always been there.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02I thought, "You wake up on a Saturday,
0:18:02 > 0:18:06"you wait for the 12.45 game then you have a rest in the afternoon..."
0:18:06 > 0:18:08- Have a rest!- Yeah, just have a little rest.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10A rest from the effort of...
0:18:10 > 0:18:12And then you watch a five o'clock game and then there we go.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- So, there's one at five as well? - Yeah.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17You can tell he's not a football fan cos look how he's sitting.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20We're football lads. You're either like that with your legs apart
0:18:20 > 0:18:21or like that, not like that.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23That's not how people sit to watch the football.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25That's how you sit to watch the ballet.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Watch the football, get your legs open.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Match over, I've left tech-starved Seth a parting gift.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Oh, yes!
0:18:41 > 0:18:43It's a Game Boy.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45It's a Game Boy.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Personal, portable and an instant hit,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Game Boy sold 35 million by the end of the year.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53This is my version of my phone in modern day.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Except only I can't make calls with it.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57I'm...
0:18:57 > 0:19:00I'm just... This is just unbelievable.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Its graphics are so bad, but I don't care
0:19:03 > 0:19:05because I'm playing.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08GAME PLAYS TUNE
0:19:10 > 0:19:13No! Stop placing them! I don't have enough time to place them!
0:19:13 > 0:19:16MUSIC: Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
0:19:16 > 0:19:19In the '50s, Steph's day was dominated by household chores.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24But with Seth happily occupied, Daisy embracing her teen spirit...
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Stop it!- Sorry!
0:19:26 > 0:19:28..and Rob cooking dinner,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31she can indulge herself in her new-found free time.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Oh.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34The idea of me-time doesn't come naturally.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37I always feel really disconcerted if I'm sitting around
0:19:37 > 0:19:39doing nothing, like I've missed something important.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42So, I've not graced it, but I'm going to give it a go with this.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Yeah, it's weird.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48I'm going to try this contraption next...
0:19:49 > 0:19:52which is a facial sauna.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56This smell does remind me of having massages and things
0:19:56 > 0:19:59and that whaley music they always play.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Right, I'm going in.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04WHALE MUSIC
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Oh, my God, it's so weird.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Rob! I've got something for you to try.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Say anything, it's good.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- DARTH VADER VOICE:- I am your father.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14STEPH LAUGHS
0:20:14 > 0:20:15That's the best thing!
0:20:15 > 0:20:17ROB LAUGHS
0:20:17 > 0:20:20See, this is so much more fun with you here than doing it on my own.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Mmm.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I think this me time thing's a bit overrated.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26WHALE MUSIC
0:20:26 > 0:20:30With satellite TV, gaming and the home spa,
0:20:30 > 0:20:34the '90s was full of exciting new ways to spend money on your free time.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41We got... We got more gadgets today.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43My goodness, this house is full of gadgets.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Um...I'm looking...
0:20:46 > 0:20:48..from a modern-day perspective
0:20:48 > 0:20:50and I'm looking back at the technology that we are using now
0:20:50 > 0:20:54that's actually, to our eyes, modern eyes, is quite old and naff now,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57but at the time was really new and shiny and I remember the new
0:20:57 > 0:21:00and shiny feeling that came with it in the '90s,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02so I'm looking now back and thinking...
0:21:04 > 0:21:06That stuff's going to be obsolete really soon.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10TETRIS MUSIC AND BLEEPS
0:21:12 > 0:21:13Doing my diary.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Hello, it's nine o'clock and you're watching BBC One for the very
0:21:25 > 0:21:28first edition of Live & Kicking, woo!
0:21:28 > 0:21:31LIVE & KICKING THEME TUNE
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Your feet stink. SETH LAUGHS
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Do you want me to take my socks off?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Is that John Barrowman?
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Yeah.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Look how young he is!- I know.
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Seriously, mate, I can't see the telly.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47OK, I'm going to try and move.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48DAISY WAILS
0:21:48 > 0:21:50- This is my telly as well!- Shut up!
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Keep up the good work.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Morning.- Morning.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00And...
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Good morning, 1993.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06MUSIC: I've Got The Power by Snap
0:22:06 > 0:22:07# I've got the power... #
0:22:08 > 0:22:11In 1993, the big story of technology was a battle
0:22:11 > 0:22:14between two video game giants.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16# I've got the power... #
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Gaming was no longer a niche market.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog and Nintendo's Super Mario fought it out for global domination.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26# I've got the power... #
0:22:26 > 0:22:30I'm sending Seth the rival consoles delivered by his best friends
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Harvey and Max.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35You guys look like idiots.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36We do, it's great.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Hello, hello?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41You're good. OK, so that's how you...
0:22:41 > 0:22:42That's how you jump.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44In 1993, video games show up
0:22:44 > 0:22:47on the Family Expenditure Survey for the first time.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Like this 28-year-old man from the south-east.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54He spent £100 on video games in one week.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59He wasn't alone.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03In that year, these two games combined sold more than 16 million copies.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06IN UNISON: Sonic The Hedgehog!
0:23:06 > 0:23:08- Oh, wow.- Oh, he's already dead.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10It's a long way from '70s Pong...
0:23:11 > 0:23:13- Yeah!- Oh, no!
0:23:13 > 0:23:14..and the '80s home computer.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Back. Back.
0:23:17 > 0:23:23'I used the Commodore 64 in the '80s and that was so slow and so painful.'
0:23:23 > 0:23:27But this didn't take ages to load, you just put it in,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30it comes up on the screen, you play the game, that's it, it's so much simpler.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Fast evolving gaming software would one day open up an industry
0:23:36 > 0:23:38worth more money than the movies.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43MUSIC: Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Leaving Daisy and Seth at home,
0:23:45 > 0:23:50Steph and Rob are stepping out to try a classic '90s dance craze
0:23:50 > 0:23:53that gave exercise classes a run for their money.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Billy Ray Cyrus's hit Achy Breaky Heart spent six weeks in the top ten
0:23:57 > 0:24:00and brought a little bit of Nashville to the British church hall.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Are you ready for the Achy Breaky Heart?- ALL: Woo!- Yes!
0:24:05 > 0:24:08One, two, three, hey.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13Now forward! Step, clap, step, clap, back, two, three, hey!
0:24:14 > 0:24:16OK. You've got it.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17He's got it.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Why haven't you got it?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Line dancing was a big hit with the mums and dads, but the 1990s
0:24:24 > 0:24:27youth scene was dominated by a different sort of dancing.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28DOORBELL RINGS
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- DAISY:- I'll get it.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Daisy's too young to go out clubbing,
0:24:32 > 0:24:33so I've sent the rave to her.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Together with '90s superstar DJ Ann Savage.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Hello!
0:24:40 > 0:24:43The '80s rave scene had moved from illegal gatherings in fields...
0:24:44 > 0:24:47To new super clubs like Ministry of Sound and Cream.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- MUSIC:- Night In Motion by Cubic 22
0:24:54 > 0:24:561993 was a massive year for me.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59It was the year I got my first residency in a nightclub.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Where have you played?
0:25:00 > 0:25:07- I've played Australia, America, China, South Africa, Japan, everywhere...- Wow.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12And you know, private jets from one festival to another if there was more than one in one day.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- I'm so jealous.- Ibiza every week.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17How much, if you don't mind me asking, how much...
0:25:17 > 0:25:20What was the biggest sum of money that you earnt from DJing?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22It's been in the five figures.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Holy...
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Every Saturday, thousands of young people queued
0:25:29 > 0:25:32and paid the equivalent of £30 to get in.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39This is Daisy's mini-Ministry.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45MUSIC: Don't You Want Me by Felix
0:25:45 > 0:25:47CHEERING
0:25:48 > 0:25:51# Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
0:25:51 > 0:25:54# I just don't think he'd understand... #
0:25:55 > 0:26:00MUSIC: Don't You Want Me by Felix
0:26:03 > 0:26:07# You can tell your ma I moved to Arkansas
0:26:07 > 0:26:09# You can tell your dog to bite my leg... #
0:26:11 > 0:26:15You see, with me, it wasn't so much line dancing as sort of blob dancing
0:26:15 > 0:26:18cos I wasn't ever in a line with anybody else!
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I was raving in the '90s,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23- that was the only kind of dancing I did really.- Techno...
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- A little bit of a trance, basically. - Yeah, trans, techno, big fish, still fish, cardboard box, yeah?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- I never did that. - No, I didn't do it either.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37MUSIC: Don't You Want Me by Felix
0:26:39 > 0:26:41The '90s is awesome.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's for young people, it's for dancing,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46it's for having fun and it's not serious like the '80s,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50it's just like embracing life and enjoying it.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52I love it cos it's social, we're all together.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Usually I'll be messaging them on my phone and now
0:26:54 > 0:26:57we're all together in the same room dancing, it's amazing.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01But I'm just going to go back right...I'm going to go back in right now.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Definitely through the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s,
0:27:11 > 0:27:16there has been that continuous thing about teenagers having that
0:27:16 > 0:27:18music as their freedom, their way of freedom.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22So, yeah, '90s...
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Awesome.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28BREAKFAST WITH FROST THEME
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Hello, good morning and welcome to Breakfast With Frost.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35On the programme...
0:27:35 > 0:27:36It's Sunday.
0:27:36 > 0:27:371994!
0:27:37 > 0:27:41And I've sent the Ashby-Hawkins something that will transform their leisure time forever.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43DOORBELL
0:27:44 > 0:27:47You're all looking at me, so I'll go. I suppose I'm nearest the door.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Fair enough.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53- I've got a package.- ALL: Oh!
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- Are you ready? - You lot are going to be so jealous.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- Whenever you're ready.- Any day now.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02ALL: Awww!
0:28:04 > 0:28:06- I've got a mobile. - Can I have a look?
0:28:06 > 0:28:07- Ah, ah, ah!- D-d-d-d-d...
0:28:07 > 0:28:08STEPH LAUGHS
0:28:08 > 0:28:10STEPH MIMICS MONKEY
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- Oh...- You're meant to have games on it.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17No, it's for calling. Take a picture of me with it.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18Oh, you can't!
0:28:18 > 0:28:22So, legit, it literally is just for calls, so it's not...
0:28:22 > 0:28:27- It's a proper phone. - It's a mobile...phone!
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Previously the preserve of the wealthy,
0:28:33 > 0:28:37by 1994 cheap mobile phones were flooding the market.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41Life without one would be unimaginable now,
0:28:41 > 0:28:43so Polly's come to meet Charles Dunstone,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45founder of Carphone Warehouse,
0:28:45 > 0:28:47to find out how they became so indispensable.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51When it all started,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54everyone just imagined that it would be a business tool.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55When Vodafone...
0:28:55 > 0:28:58There were two networks at the beginning, Vodafone and Cellnet.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Vodafone, everyone thought they were crazy.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04In their application, they said they thought ultimately,
0:29:04 > 0:29:08- ultimately there could be 600,000 mobile phone users in the UK.- Never!
0:29:08 > 0:29:11That was the extent of people's ambition.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12And that seemed outlandish?
0:29:12 > 0:29:14People thought it was absolutely crazy, yeah.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Of these phones, which one was the one that was really
0:29:18 > 0:29:21picked up by, sort of, everyday consumers.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22People using them recreationally.
0:29:22 > 0:29:28The Nokia 2110, that was like the Volkswagen Golf of mobile phones, if you like.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30And how many of these do you know sold?
0:29:30 > 0:29:33I think someone said 20 million of them, of those were sold.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35They look funny.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39This is such a revolution to have these and people think a modern
0:29:39 > 0:29:42smartphone is amazing, and it is absolutely amazing,
0:29:42 > 0:29:45but it's actually not as amazing as this was,
0:29:45 > 0:29:47just the concept that you could
0:29:47 > 0:29:49always be in touch wherever you were.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52When I was your age with my mates,
0:29:52 > 0:29:55we'd arrange to meet somewhere and we'd arrange to meet
0:29:55 > 0:29:58at the phone box on the corner of whatever at one o'clock.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00And that was it. That was the way you made arrangements.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02And you'd keep to your time.
0:30:02 > 0:30:03PHONE RINGS
0:30:03 > 0:30:04Oh...Excuse me.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Hello?
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Hello, Polly, how are you doing?
0:30:11 > 0:30:12Oh, it's great.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16I'm sitting here at the breakfast table rudely talking to you and ignoring everyone else.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17It's brilliant.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19Oh...exciting!
0:30:19 > 0:30:21We'll see you at Lakeside at 11.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25And if I get delayed, I'll call you on your mobile. Woohoo!
0:30:27 > 0:30:311994 saw the passing of legislation that changed our weekends forever.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37Sunday in England and Wales will never be the same again after
0:30:37 > 0:30:39last night's Commons vote
0:30:39 > 0:30:41and the Church of England is worried about the impact of new
0:30:41 > 0:30:44Sunday trading on the nation's spiritual and physical health.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47So, we walked along this route.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49- In our Sunday best. - In our Sunday best.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53- And we went there to the church. - In there.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55- Right there?- There.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00- In there.- It's strange.- It is r... - It is really strange.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02I have to say, I felt very uncomfortable going to church
0:31:02 > 0:31:05not being religious and I feel much more comfortable shopping.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10By 1994, with the ready availability of credit, ten times as many
0:31:10 > 0:31:14people were going out shopping on a Sunday as were going to church.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18MUSIC: Music For A Found Harmonium by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
0:31:26 > 0:31:28But we weren't just heading to the high street any more.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31Huge new out-of-town shopping centres offered
0:31:31 > 0:31:32parking for thousands of cars,
0:31:32 > 0:31:34millions of square feet of retail space
0:31:34 > 0:31:37and hundreds of shops and restaurants.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40Is this the first time that you've been to Lakeside Shopping Centre?
0:31:40 > 0:31:42I've been before once.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44- When did you come? - Not long after it opened.
0:31:44 > 0:31:45Why did you come?
0:31:45 > 0:31:48Christmas shopping and pure curiosity
0:31:48 > 0:31:51about what this huge new shopping Mecca was, really.
0:31:51 > 0:31:52And it was huge.
0:31:52 > 0:31:57Yeah, because in the 1990s, this is really the decade when shopping
0:31:57 > 0:32:01and consumption become the way that people spend their time.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05And the way that we are shopping is being shaped and controlled
0:32:05 > 0:32:08and interpreted by consumer analysts.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12These spaces are clean and safe and ideal for families.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15There were rules in some of these shopping centres that you couldn't wear hoods.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17I mean, you can't come here and beg.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20There is a degree of social engineering going on.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23So, where a high street organically grew up over years
0:32:23 > 0:32:27and decades and centuries, this space has been very carefully
0:32:27 > 0:32:31planned to make sure that you spend maximum time and maximum money.
0:32:31 > 0:32:36The 1990s see an explosion in service industry jobs
0:32:36 > 0:32:38and a decline in manufacturing jobs.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42And that is why today, Daisy, you're going to go and work in a shop.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44You're going to be part of the retail industry.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51New shopping centres like this one were significant employers.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54Welcome to Flutterbyes.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56- Here's your pinny.- Thank you.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00- Today, as your first task, can you do some sweeping for me?- Yeah.
0:33:01 > 0:33:05In the mid-1990s, around 40% of teenagers had a weekend job
0:33:05 > 0:33:07compared with just 20% now.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17With all these new ways to spend our time and money, the retail
0:33:17 > 0:33:21industry was becoming increasingly important to the country's economy.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29I find doing things like this very satisfying and I do enjoy it.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31I wouldn't take it up as a professional profession.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35But I do enjoy stacking shelves!
0:33:38 > 0:33:42As the number of things to spend money on grew, 1994 saw the
0:33:42 > 0:33:46arrival of a game that offered to fulfil all your consumer fantasies.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Within the next hour,
0:33:48 > 0:33:51somebody watching this show is going to be made a millionaire.
0:33:52 > 0:33:53And it could be you.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59Tonight, Grandma Jennifer is joining them for the big draw.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01In the advert, it was the finger, wasn't it? "It could be you."
0:34:01 > 0:34:04It was brilliant. Yeah, love it. Absolutely love it.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05I was so excited about it.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08It wore off after about two weeks of not winning,
0:34:08 > 0:34:11but at the time I was like, "Yes, here we go!"
0:34:11 > 0:34:16- Five, four, three, two, one! - Activate the balls!
0:34:18 > 0:34:22And the first ever national live lottery draw...
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Here they come, here they come, here they come. Check your numbers.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27And the first number to be coming out now, it's green,
0:34:27 > 0:34:29and it is number 30!
0:34:29 > 0:34:34- Yes!- I got that one. I thought it was a three.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36Oh, no, there's the three. I got the three!
0:34:38 > 0:34:39Yeah, I got a five!
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- Wow!- Come on!
0:34:44 > 0:34:4644!
0:34:46 > 0:34:47You got 44? ALL: No!
0:34:49 > 0:34:51- 14?- No-o-o...
0:34:52 > 0:34:54And the bonus is number 10.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58So, erm, we're not millionaires,
0:34:58 > 0:35:00so let's see what's on the other side, shall we?
0:35:00 > 0:35:01He's off already.
0:35:01 > 0:35:0422 million people watched the first National Lottery draw,
0:35:04 > 0:35:06but by the mid-1990s,
0:35:06 > 0:35:09family viewing was no longer the default leisure time activity.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14Instead, personal technology dominated.
0:35:18 > 0:35:19- ROB:- Oh, flip.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Yes, all right, come on, then, you stupid hedgehog.
0:35:23 > 0:35:24Do your thing.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29I've always been rubbish at video games.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32MUSIC: Human Behaviour by Bjork
0:35:32 > 0:35:35# Human behaviour... #
0:35:35 > 0:35:37'I miss my children, I have to say.'
0:35:37 > 0:35:40We've been replaced by gadgets.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42And electrical toot.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45That felt weirdly normal.
0:35:45 > 0:35:48I felt like this was the closest to contemporary life.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50I knew something like that would happen,
0:35:50 > 0:35:55but I didn't really expect it to happen so early in the '90s.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59MUSIC: All Over You by Level 42
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Daisy's off to pick up a message.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11That's clearly my computer, it's so retro.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13SHE LAUGHS
0:36:13 > 0:36:17It does feel a bit odd that I'm going out to check my e-mails
0:36:17 > 0:36:20and paying to do that, whereas now I can just go on my phone.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24In 1995, just 2.5% of us had internet access at home,
0:36:24 > 0:36:28so cafes where you could pay a couple of quid to dial up thrived.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31This is a really slow computer.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34I'm used to everything being done like that.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36It's from Giles.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39"Dear Ashby-Hawkins, I hope you're enjoying the 1990s.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42"You are no doubt already feeling the impact of all the new
0:36:42 > 0:36:44"technology that has come your way.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47"I have taken it upon myself to ensure that you have some quality time together..."
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Oh, yay(!)
0:36:49 > 0:36:53"I have arranged for you to have a mini break in the Center Parcs.
0:36:53 > 0:36:54"Enjoy, Giles."
0:36:54 > 0:36:58Oh, that is so nice! That's really cool.
0:36:58 > 0:36:59What's Center Parcs?
0:37:01 > 0:37:04- VOICEOVER:- Beneath the canopy of a million trees,
0:37:04 > 0:37:07in 400 acres of woodland and water...
0:37:07 > 0:37:10By the mid-90s, in addition to a summer holiday,
0:37:10 > 0:37:13a third of Brits were taking at least one short break a year.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19This is the magic of Center Parcs.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Opened in 1994, this new resort tapped into the mini break market.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28MUSIC: Alright by Supergrass
0:37:28 > 0:37:32Some of the activities have changed, but the principle is still the same.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34A secure environment where families can enjoy quality
0:37:34 > 0:37:36time in the outdoors.
0:37:36 > 0:37:37Woahhhh!
0:37:39 > 0:37:42# We are young, we run free
0:37:42 > 0:37:45# Keep our teeth nice and clean... #
0:37:46 > 0:37:49One, two, three.
0:37:51 > 0:37:52We're lost.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Safety was a big part of the appeal.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57I exceed the height.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00With more cars on the road than ever before
0:38:00 > 0:38:03and saturation media coverage of some high-profile crimes,
0:38:03 > 0:38:07the outside world felt like an increasingly dangerous place.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11For goodness' sake, keep tight hold of your children.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13And these fears had an impact.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15In the mid-90s, only 9% of parents let their seven
0:38:15 > 0:38:19and eight-year-olds walk to school on their own compared to 80%
0:38:19 > 0:38:20just two decades before.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Places like this offered your children the chance to run free
0:38:26 > 0:38:28and face only the right kind of danger.
0:38:29 > 0:38:30Woo!
0:38:33 > 0:38:35Oh, my God, it's amazing!
0:38:35 > 0:38:39- Three, two, one!- Go, go!
0:38:39 > 0:38:41SCREAMING
0:38:41 > 0:38:43# Of the scene as she turns
0:38:43 > 0:38:46# We are strange in our worlds
0:38:46 > 0:38:50# But we are young... #
0:38:50 > 0:38:52I don't want a hug.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54- What do you think?- That's great.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56That was awesome.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58No, Daisy, I'm never doing that again.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00That was so good.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02I want to do it again and again and again.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06What I like about this place is it's a secure environment.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09The outside world is big and scary, particularly in the '90s,
0:39:09 > 0:39:12it becomes a bit, you know, scarier and I would never have
0:39:12 > 0:39:16dreamt of letting you out at the age of 10 or 11 onto the streets.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19- Do you think we've spent quality time together?- Yeah.- I do.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21When I was playing Tetris and you were on Sonic
0:39:21 > 0:39:24and you are on something else, that's time together,
0:39:24 > 0:39:26but it's rubbish time together, isn't it?
0:39:26 > 0:39:31But quality time together is actually where we are interacting.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34This place gives it to you on a plate,
0:39:34 > 0:39:36but the point is it's a contrived thing.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38It was like the equivalent of the shopping centre, isn't it?
0:39:38 > 0:39:41And before that quality time phrase was invented,
0:39:41 > 0:39:42- places like this didn't exist.- No.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47MUSIC: Bagatelle In A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
0:39:50 > 0:39:52# Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
0:39:52 > 0:39:55# So, tell me what you want, what you really, really want... #
0:39:55 > 0:39:57I wasn't into the Spice Girls.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I'd just be a dirty old man, cos they were all young ladies.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01THEY LAUGH
0:40:01 > 0:40:03I feel like they're your guilty pleasure.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Like my guilty pleasure is, like, Taylor Swift
0:40:06 > 0:40:10and then your guilty pleasure is the Spice Girls.
0:40:12 > 0:40:17'It's 1996, and I've sent the Asbhy-Hawkins another upgrade.'
0:40:17 > 0:40:21- What is it?- Whoa, they're huge!
0:40:21 > 0:40:23'Having technology is no longer enough.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26'What matters now is having the latest...'
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Look at that!
0:40:32 > 0:40:36- '..including a brand-new home computer.'- Compact, isn't it?
0:40:39 > 0:40:44'By '96, 27% of UK households had one.
0:40:45 > 0:40:51'As did this 35-year-old from Scotland, who spent £357 on his.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56'This one comes with a feature that will change everything.'
0:40:57 > 0:41:00- Family!- Yeah?- Come hither. Historic moment
0:41:00 > 0:41:03- in the Ashby-Hawkins household.- We got post?
0:41:03 > 0:41:05We're going to dial up.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07- So, can you see the little icon? - Yeah.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10That's the telephone line communicating with the computer,
0:41:10 > 0:41:12and it's going to make a noise in a minute
0:41:12 > 0:41:13cos you'll get a dialling tone.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16LOUD BUZZING
0:41:18 > 0:41:20That's quite cool, actually.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23COMPUTER BUZZES
0:41:23 > 0:41:26That's the data, Stevie. Down the line. That noise.
0:41:29 > 0:41:33- So we're now connected.- To the internet.- Ooh, check that out!
0:41:33 > 0:41:34That is retro.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37'Today, there are a billion websites,
0:41:37 > 0:41:40'and we average more than three hours a day staring at them.'
0:41:40 > 0:41:42..the address of the very...
0:41:42 > 0:41:45'In 1996, there was little to do online,
0:41:45 > 0:41:50'and it was hard to imagine that to Google would one day be a verb.'
0:41:51 > 0:41:54What do you think, though, about the way it looks and what's in it?
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Slow and boring and simple.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59You keep asking for more tech and when you get it,
0:41:59 > 0:42:02all you do is complain about it! I don't understand you, mate.
0:42:02 > 0:42:03Can I have a go?
0:42:03 > 0:42:06- Yeah, course you can.- I'm going to go and make some food.- I'm going.
0:42:06 > 0:42:10- How are you not excited? I'm so excited.- I think it's brilliant!
0:42:12 > 0:42:15It's gone from a typewriter to this.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17MUSIC: Babies by Pulp
0:42:18 > 0:42:19Rob and Seth may be underwhelmed,
0:42:19 > 0:42:23but the internet has made its first move on family life.
0:42:27 > 0:42:31With the endless upgrades, the outdated tech had to go somewhere,
0:42:31 > 0:42:33to either landfill, lofts or the shed.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39But that didn't dampen our enthusiasm for all things new.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42Technology is very addictive, and from this point of history onwards,
0:42:42 > 0:42:44particularly with the internet,
0:42:44 > 0:42:47you could just waste an entire life away just looking at the screen.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51It's making sure that it doesn't take over our lives.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01MUSIC: Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream
0:43:03 > 0:43:05'1997 was a big year for Britain.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10'After 18 years of Conservative rule,
0:43:10 > 0:43:13'a historic victory for Tony Blair and the Labour Party.'
0:43:13 > 0:43:15I say to the people of this country,
0:43:15 > 0:43:19we ran for office as New Labour - we will govern as New Labour.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23MUSIC: Brimful of Asha by Cornershop
0:43:23 > 0:43:27'With a sense of the country starting afresh, there was a massive
0:43:27 > 0:43:31'appetite for reinvention, which we even applied to our own homes.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34'And if we weren't doing it ourselves,
0:43:34 > 0:43:35'we were watching it on television.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37'Lifestyle and makeover programmes
0:43:37 > 0:43:40'dominated the TV schedules in the '90s.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46'Linda Barker and Tommy Walsh were stars of Changing Rooms
0:43:46 > 0:43:51'and Ground Force, with audiences of ten million tuning in every week.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53'They're coming to give the Ashby-Hawkins
0:43:53 > 0:43:54'their own '90s makeover.'
0:43:56 > 0:43:58Yeah!
0:43:58 > 0:44:02One, two, three - open your eyes.
0:44:02 > 0:44:06'Both shows were a race against the clock,
0:44:06 > 0:44:11'creating radical transformations... triumphs and disasters.'
0:44:12 > 0:44:14I think we just have to put our hands up on this one.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16DOORBELL RINGS
0:44:18 > 0:44:24Oh, my goodness! Hello, hello! How lovely to meet you!
0:44:24 > 0:44:25Tommy!
0:44:25 > 0:44:28So, in good Changing Rooms fashion, we've got the shirts.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31- I'd forgotten about the shirts. The team shirts!- Yeah.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34Rob, do you fancy red? And Daisy.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36And you guys can be in the orange team.
0:44:36 > 0:44:38Cos it's competitive, you know.
0:44:40 > 0:44:42'Daisy and Rob are with Linda,
0:44:42 > 0:44:45'giving the living area a cool Britannia twist...'
0:44:45 > 0:44:49I am bursting with excitement right now. This is so cool!
0:44:49 > 0:44:51I mean, I've got Tommy Walsh in the back garden
0:44:51 > 0:44:53and I've got Linda Barker all to myself.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Absolutely fabulous. What more can I ask for?
0:44:57 > 0:45:01'..while Seth and Steph are with Tommy, creating an outdoor room.'
0:45:01 > 0:45:04On a scale of one to ten with ten being really, really excited,
0:45:04 > 0:45:06I'm about an 11.
0:45:06 > 0:45:07I'm really excited!
0:45:09 > 0:45:13Yes! Victory is mine!
0:45:13 > 0:45:16Oh, it's lovely, isn't it, having a zip?
0:45:16 > 0:45:20- Makes it so much easier, doesn't it? - Has it transformed your life?
0:45:20 > 0:45:24'It's not just the Ashby-Hawkins going crazy for home improvements.
0:45:24 > 0:45:28'The Family Expenditure Survey shows countless entries for DIY.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31'Like this 42-year-old woman from the West Midlands,
0:45:31 > 0:45:34'who spent £115 on materials in one week.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41'As we took inspiration from our televisions, makeover shows
0:45:41 > 0:45:47'helped turn DIY into a leisure pursuit worth £9 billion by 1997.'
0:45:47 > 0:45:51It enabled people to be their own interior designers.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53Prior to that, interior design was really for the rich
0:45:53 > 0:45:58and famous and rock royalty, not for the ordinary person in the street.
0:45:58 > 0:45:59Guess what I'm going to say?
0:45:59 > 0:46:03We've got, like, 40 minutes, so keep it big and colourful, I think.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05- Now is not the time for taste. - Right.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08- What's this? - This is just made out of MDF.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10LINDA: After most of the shows that we did,
0:46:10 > 0:46:14the big DIY stores would have massive increase of sales.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16They loved us.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20They would get us to open their new showrooms, and they would be
0:46:20 > 0:46:26opening new showrooms like every week, so it was just bonkers.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37We had a regular slot on a Friday night, and then everyone would
0:46:37 > 0:46:41then go to the garden centre on a Saturday and a Sunday asking for
0:46:41 > 0:46:44all the stuff that they'd seen on the show the night before,
0:46:44 > 0:46:47and there was a real problem because all the merchants had to try
0:46:47 > 0:46:49and guess what we would do.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53'It was no coincidence that in the space of three years,
0:46:53 > 0:46:58'B&Q's annual decking sales went from £5,000 to £16 million.'
0:46:58 > 0:47:02It made a fundamental change to the way people spent their leisure time.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Such was the popularity of Ground Force
0:47:04 > 0:47:08that they even entered the world of international politics.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11From the Ground Force team, in the garden of -
0:47:11 > 0:47:15and I still can't really believe I'm saying this - Nelson Mandela,
0:47:15 > 0:47:17from Mr Mandela and the Ground Force team...
0:47:17 > 0:47:21If you can't believe it, it's even more for me!
0:47:26 > 0:47:28- My pleasure.- High five!
0:47:28 > 0:47:31They're keeping their eyes shut!
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Open your eyes.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36Oh! It's amazing!
0:47:36 > 0:47:42- Oh!- Wow!
0:47:42 > 0:47:47Here's to Ground Force/Changing Rooms mashup!
0:47:47 > 0:47:52- 1990s.- Welcome to the club, and as we used to say, until the next time.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05Home improvements or DIY...
0:48:05 > 0:48:08not really my thing.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12Just look at that, on my head.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15That's not amazing DIY.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23It's 1998, Seth.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28More stuff. Kids! Kids.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31'I've sent Steph everything she needs to work from home,
0:48:31 > 0:48:34'including a brand-new designer Apple iMac.'
0:48:35 > 0:48:40Look at that! It's a thing of beauty, isn't it?
0:48:43 > 0:48:46'Launched in May '98, it sold 800,000 that year,
0:48:46 > 0:48:49'which is one every 15 seconds.'
0:48:49 > 0:48:53- Out with the grey, boring old.- We only got that a couple of years ago.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56No, seriously, we got that, like, two years ago
0:48:56 > 0:48:58- and now we're getting a new computer.- That's what happens.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01'And if you are going to work from home,
0:49:01 > 0:49:04'who wouldn't want something that looks like it belongs there?'
0:49:04 > 0:49:08It feels much more like what I'm used to, in modern day,
0:49:08 > 0:49:12which I guess for its time was a real step forward.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15We've got a Linda Barker designed kitchen now,
0:49:15 > 0:49:19and now we've got a lovely computer that doesn't look out of place.
0:49:19 > 0:49:24It's almost turned it into a design statement piece of furniture,
0:49:24 > 0:49:28as well as it being a computer.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30'By 1998, twice as many people
0:49:30 > 0:49:32'worked from home as in the early '80s,
0:49:32 > 0:49:36'and technology once thought extraordinary had become everyday.
0:49:36 > 0:49:40'So for a special treat, you had to think outside the box,
0:49:40 > 0:49:42'which is what Steph's done for Rob's birthday.
0:49:49 > 0:49:53'Experience gifts, like this, were a '90s innovation.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56'In the '50s, a trip to the pub was a treat.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00'Now Rob's getting to ride in a vintage Tiger Moth.'
0:50:00 > 0:50:01Right, these straps here....
0:50:01 > 0:50:04Erm, will keep you in.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06- Or keep your body with the wreckage. - ROB LAUGHS
0:50:28 > 0:50:32The company that started them sold 22,000 experiences in 1998
0:50:32 > 0:50:35and kick-started an entirely new form of leisure.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42MUSIC: Tomorrow Never Dies By Sheryl Crow
0:51:07 > 0:51:08Oh, what an experience.
0:51:08 > 0:51:09As experiences go.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15It's hard to put into words how fantastically brilliant that was.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17I mean, it was just... Yeah.
0:51:17 > 0:51:20It was just the smoothest plane ride I've ever had in my life
0:51:20 > 0:51:22and the most exhilarating thing that I've ever done.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Last day of the '90s tomorrow
0:51:38 > 0:51:44and I've been thinking about the whole experience
0:51:44 > 0:51:47and it's been incredible.
0:51:47 > 0:51:51And I know I'm going to get really emotional on the last day
0:51:51 > 0:51:53because it's...
0:51:53 > 0:51:55It's literally the end of an era.
0:51:58 > 0:52:02Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04That's cos it is 1999.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09Over five decades of time travelling,
0:52:09 > 0:52:12the Ashby-Hawkins' home has gone from sparse to overflowing.
0:52:12 > 0:52:16Their shed is now full of all the stuff they've accumulated.
0:52:21 > 0:52:22Luckily, in the '90s,
0:52:22 > 0:52:26some savvy businessman came up with a solution for our storage woes.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30'I'm meeting James Gibson who founded Big Yellow Storage.'
0:52:30 > 0:52:34Why do you think in the '90s Britain suddenly started to need
0:52:34 > 0:52:35storage space like this?
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Rising house prices in the '80s and '90s
0:52:38 > 0:52:41did lead to people beginning to invest in their homes more.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Whether they were doing lofts or extending,
0:52:44 > 0:52:47they're taking storage out of their houses.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50We're providing just an extension to their home.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Why do they need to store it in a special space?
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Why not in their homes?
0:52:53 > 0:52:55Part of what they're storing will be emotional -
0:52:55 > 0:52:57stuff that they have an attachment to.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59But part of it, in these very small rooms,
0:52:59 > 0:53:01is stuff you want access to,
0:53:01 > 0:53:04but you don't necessarily have to keep in your flat
0:53:04 > 0:53:06or your house 24 hours a day.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09You know, it wasn't until we started filling this store up
0:53:09 > 0:53:12after a week or two, then they started signing licence agreements,
0:53:12 > 0:53:15putting locks on doors, that we really knew we were onto something.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20I'm back with my final delivery of the decade.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25- Giles.- Hello, Rob.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28- Hello, sir. How are you? - Take me to your shed.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30You don't mind if I open your shed?
0:53:30 > 0:53:32- No.- Help yourself. - The newly blue shed.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34Look at all this stuff.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36- You've finished with it, and there's nowhere to put it.- No.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39This wouldn't have been a problem for people in the '50s.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41- No, of course. - They knew the value of possessions.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44Luckily what we have here is the key to a self storage unit.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46The kind of houses we live in today, the size of houses,
0:53:46 > 0:53:48are not designed for the amount of stuff we have.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50So, people who lived in sort of Downton Abbey
0:53:50 > 0:53:53there's always a loft, an attic and a wing to lob it in.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55- But a normal, terraced, urban house there just isn't room.- No.
0:53:55 > 0:53:59And you can't throw it away, so you sort of punt it into the future.
0:53:59 > 0:54:00- Yeah.- OK, look.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02- Steph, you have the key.- Thanks.
0:54:02 > 0:54:03It's the '90s after all.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06- You have the hard stuff for boxing up.- Thank you very much.
0:54:06 > 0:54:08Get on with that. And I'll see you later.
0:54:08 > 0:54:09- Thank you very much.- Bye.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11There's a nice pair of puppies.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Remember this? Huh? Remember this?
0:54:14 > 0:54:16A cabinet.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19IBM. IBM monitor.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24Where's Seth?
0:54:24 > 0:54:26Seth, where are you? Come on.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28Ah! What? What the...?
0:54:28 > 0:54:29Oh, no.
0:54:29 > 0:54:30Oh, that's tape.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37For the Ashby-Hawkins, a new millennium is fast approaching.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39And they're off out to celebrate.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43In the build-up to the millennium,
0:54:43 > 0:54:46the government pumped £1.3 billion of lottery money
0:54:46 > 0:54:49into big leisure sites, like the Eden Project,
0:54:49 > 0:54:52Cardiff Millennium Stadium and the Dome.
0:54:58 > 0:55:00- Hey!- Oh, you're here.
0:55:00 > 0:55:01Happy New Year, everyone.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03So, it's December 31, 1999.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05It's the last day of the old millennium,
0:55:05 > 0:55:08- and what better place to celebrate it than on the London Eye?- Yay!
0:55:08 > 0:55:10It was opened that night by Tony Blair, although
0:55:10 > 0:55:12general punters couldn't go on it until March.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14We are not general punters, we are special.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16We are going to celebrate on there. So, let's go and tear it up.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25On that evening, people across the country gathered together
0:55:25 > 0:55:26to see in the new millennium.
0:55:29 > 0:55:333 million made their way to the banks of the River Thames.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38- ALL:- Five...four...
0:55:38 > 0:55:41three...two...one!
0:55:41 > 0:55:43THEY CHEER
0:55:45 > 0:55:48MUSIC: Nessun Dorma
0:55:59 > 0:56:01Cheers, welcome to the new millennium.
0:56:01 > 0:56:02- Cheers, yes, thank you.- Cheers!
0:56:02 > 0:56:04So, how was your 50 years then?
0:56:04 > 0:56:06- Awesome.- Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09- And what about you, Daisy?- There were some moments where I'm like,
0:56:09 > 0:56:11"Oh, I hate being a teenager." But there's some moments
0:56:11 > 0:56:13I've actually rejoiced in being a teenager. It's been fun.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16Are you glad to get back into the 21st century?
0:56:16 > 0:56:17I'm glad to get back to the 21st century,
0:56:17 > 0:56:19but I also didn't want to say goodbye to this.
0:56:19 > 0:56:21- Really?- I've really enjoyed it.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28What's shone out of this whole experiment is
0:56:28 > 0:56:30it's all about people, isn't it?
0:56:30 > 0:56:34It's about spending time with people who you care about
0:56:34 > 0:56:36and having the freedom to choose the stuff that you do.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39Oh, my God. It's amazing!
0:56:39 > 0:56:42I think what it's done... It's laid the foundations for us,
0:56:42 > 0:56:44when we go back to our contemporary life,
0:56:44 > 0:56:46to spend longer with our family.
0:56:46 > 0:56:47Because we weren't.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50And it's opened our eyes up as to what we have to do
0:56:50 > 0:56:52when we go back to our modern lives.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56I'd probably take away this whole being a proper teenager thing
0:56:56 > 0:56:59and I'm slightly envious of previous decades' teenagers
0:56:59 > 0:57:01cos they're proper teenagers,
0:57:01 > 0:57:03whereas we just stare at our screens the entire time.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05So, I really will... I really will miss that.
0:57:12 > 0:57:13When I go back to contemporary life,
0:57:13 > 0:57:16I will probably miss the family time that I've spent.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18In modern-day life, spending time with my family
0:57:18 > 0:57:19is the difficult part.
0:57:19 > 0:57:21It shouldn't be difficult,
0:57:21 > 0:57:23but it is, because technology gets in the way
0:57:23 > 0:57:25and it absorbs your entire life.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31It's like a new beginning, it's great. I love it. I'm just so...
0:57:31 > 0:57:36I'm so happy we did it and really sad it's finishing.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38Sorry.
0:57:45 > 0:57:49In just a few short weeks, the Ashby-Hawkins have gone from 1950,
0:57:49 > 0:57:51a point at which leisure barely existed,
0:57:51 > 0:57:54to 1999 with its dizzying array of choices for our free time.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56As they leave the 20th century and step into the future,
0:57:56 > 0:58:00does the family have any idea how much technology will continue
0:58:00 > 0:58:02to transform our leisure time?
0:58:08 > 0:58:09Next time...
0:58:09 > 0:58:11- ALL:- Whoa!
0:58:11 > 0:58:15..will technology in the future free us...?
0:58:15 > 0:58:16I've got control of it,
0:58:16 > 0:58:18but it's going the wrong way. Whoa!
0:58:18 > 0:58:21..or constrain us?
0:58:21 > 0:58:24You spent seven hours and 15 minutes on your phone that Sunday.
0:58:24 > 0:58:25Oh!
0:58:25 > 0:58:27It's the future.
0:58:27 > 0:58:29Freedom.
0:58:29 > 0:58:32MUSIC: Whatever by Oasis