Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.
S1E1 · 2012-10-02 · 60m
Ian Hislop charts how the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th century.
S1E2 · 2012-10-09 · 60m
How the Victorians made the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.
S1E3 · 2012-10-15 · 60m
In the final part of his new series, Ian Hislop takes a wry and witty look at the ups and downs of the Stiff Upper Lip since the First World War and asks whether it still has a role in contemporary Britain.
Ian Hislop
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