Ian Hislop's Olden Days

We British look backwards. We always have done. In this ambitious and original new series, Ian explores perhaps the most distinctive, peculiar and deep-seated trait of the British – our obsession with the past – the olden days. Over three films, he reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered the past to make sense of and shape the present. Drawing upon the work of Britain’s minstrels and story-tellers, poets and painters, historians and architects, propagandists and pamphleteers over the last thousand years, Ian demonstrates just how influential the olden days have always been - despite the fact that so much harking back turns out to be inaccurate, silly, absurd, and very, very funny...

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 280408
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired April 9, 2014
  • Recent April 23, 2014
  • Airs Wednesday, at 9:00pm
  • Network BBC Two
  • Average Runtime 60 minutes
  • Genres Documentary History
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
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