Ian Hislop's Olden Days
Ian Hislop's Olden Days
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Ian Hislop's Olden Days

6.0 / 10
2014
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

Ian Hislop explores the British obsession with the past. He reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.

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  • Heroes For All Times

    1.Heroes For All Times

    09-04-201460m

    Ian Hislop explores perhaps the most distinctive, peculiar and deep-seated trait of the British, our obsession with the past. Over three films he reveals how and why, throughout ou...

  • Forward into the Past

    2.Forward into the Past

    16-04-201460m

    Ian Hislop travels back to the era of the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Britain. This was a time of some of the greatest progress and modernisation the country had ever seen...

  • Green Imagined Land

    3.Green Imagined Land

    23-04-201460m

    Ian Hislop explores the rural olden days - an idealised vision of the countryside - in this concluding film of his series exploring Britain's obsession with the past.

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