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Channel 4 to Air The Space Race in Colour Free in the UK

Channel 4's two-part docuseries The Space Race in Colour premieres Saturday, Sept. 26, at 8pm BST, free to UK viewers. It combines colorized archive footage and new eyewitness interviews to revisit the US-USSR space race of the 1950s and '60s.

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The series examines the space race between the USA and USSR during the 1950s and ’60s, a period when space exploration advanced at an unprecedented pace and built toward the Apollo Moon landings. It covers the political ambitions of both countries to achieve military supremacy and the key partnerships between visionary rocket engineers and politicians. Its story ranges from the first satellite to the first man on the Moon, and also looks at surveillance, espionage and the prospects of living in space, showing that the competition involved more than missiles.

What distinguishes the series, TechRadar says, is its modern colorization of archival footage and never-before-seen eyewitness interviews. It is part of Woodcut's "In Colour" franchise, which includes Titanic in Colour, The Race for Ancient Egypt in Colour, Britain's Railway Empire in Colour and The Manhattan Project in Colour. Series producer Jonathan Mayo said colorizing archival footage makes it feel more like living human stories than a distant past, according to the report.

Outside the U.K., The Space Race in Colour does not currently have a streaming home or broadcast network, TechRadar reports. The British documentary series was produced by Woodcut Media and Woodcut International for Channel 4. For British viewers traveling abroad, TechRadar recommends using a VPN to access Channel 4 and watch the episodes as they would at home, provided doing so does not breach the broadcaster's terms and conditions. TechRadar recommends NordVPN and says it is offering a 75% discount, three extra months free and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Channel 4 can be watched on a range of devices, according to TechRadar. These include Amazon Fire, Android mobile and tablet devices running Android 7.0 and above, Apple TV, Google TV, Freely, Freeview Play, iOS devices running iOS 14 and above, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Roku, Samsung smart TVs, Virgin Media, YouView and Xbox One.

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