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Shifty (2025)

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

Released June 14, 2025 346 min Episode 69 min None+

Genres: Documentary

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Production Companies: A24, BBC

Network: BBC iPlayer

Country: United Kingdom
Production Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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3.5
Season 1
5 episodes
Watch Trailer
BBC iPlayer
346 min
69 min/ep
June 14, 2025
June 14, 2025, midnight
Ended
NR