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 a…