Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You

Like the industrial revolution before it, our postwar culture is a success story built on geographical opportunism and an indefatigable entrepreneuria...

The industrial revolution seemed to presage a fundamental upheaval of British society and an overturning of the traditional social hierarchies. For th...

Postwar culture has not merely been driven by the same qualities and impulses that shaped Victorian Britain - it has also demonstrated many of the sam...

The final programme looks at the way in which postwar culture has seen the triumph of an idea that first took hold during the Victorian period: the ri...