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The Future

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. In the final episode, they discover what the future might hold for our free time.

In the final episode, our family discovers what the future might hold for our free time. As they reflect on their time-travelling experience, they also reveal how living in the past has changed how they feel about the present and their hopes for the future too. Changes in technology have driven much of our family's experience, and as they look to the future they discover new ways in which technology may go on to further transform our leisure time.

The family get their hands on some robotic housework help a world away from Steph's 1950s mangle, and she and Rob try out a very futuristic gym fad - immersive fitness. Seth embraces some cutting-edge technology that takes him away from his screens, giving them the freedoms of the past with all the computer power of the 21st century. And Daisy gets to try out an innovative camera that records her day without cutting her off from her friends.

But in the end, it's time spent together as a family that is the most important to all of them. As they look back and forward into the future, the Ashby-Hawkins family realise that no matter what incredible technological innovations await us, it's free time enjoyed together that we'll always treasure.

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Sat 1 Jun 2019 13:00

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Music Played

  • Galantis

    Revolution

  • Rizzle Kicks

    Happy That You're Here

  • Paloma Faith

    Ready For The Good Life

  • Paloma Faith

    Upside Down

  • Calvin Harris

    Merrymaking At My Place (Album Version)

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Rollerblades

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

  • Daft Punk

    Contact

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

  • Pulp

    Babies

  • Kimberly Anne

    Bury It There

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Walkure - The Ride of the Valkyries

  • Clean Bandit

    Come Over (feat. Stylo G)

  • Chic

    Everybody Dance

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Pack Up

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    Warm Foothills

  • Average White Band

    Pick Up The Pieces

  • Take That

    Never Forget

  • Half Moon Run

    I Can't Figure Out What's Going On

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Giles Coren
Expert Polly Russell
Executive Producer Emily Shields
Series Producer Nancy Bornat
Director Susie Attwood
Producer Rachel Eadie
Production Company Wall to Wall Media

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Families travel back in time to experience how food, leisure and society has transformed.