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Ian Hislop's Olden Days
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Ian Hislop's Olden Days Season 1, Episode 1: Heroes For All Times
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 our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present. Watch Ian Hislop's Olden Days Season 1, Episode 1 Heroes For All Times in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Ian Hislop's Olden Days Season 1, Episode 1 and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Heroes For All Times
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 our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.
60 min
Forward into the Past
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 - and yet, throughout these decades, writers, artists and politicians were trying to make sense of this new world by retreating into a very old world indeed: the Middle Ages.
60 min
Green Imagined Land
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.
60 min