Ian MacMillan
Director
Ian Hislop's Olden Days (2014)
Season 1
Ian Hislop explores the British obsession with the past. He reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.
Released April 9, 2014
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, History
Keywords: imdb.obsession, imdb.british-history
Production Companies: Wingspan Productions
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Heroes For All Times
Ian Hislop explores perhaps the most distinctive, peculiar and deep-seated trait of the British, our obsession with the past. Over three films he reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.
April 9, 2014, midnight
S1E2 - Forward into the Past
Ian Hislop travels back to the era of the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Britain. This was a time of some of the greatest progress and modernisation the country had ever seen - and yet, throughout these decades, writers, artists and politicians were trying to make sense of this new world by retreating into a very old world indeed: the Middle Ages.
April 16, 2014, midnight
S1E3 - Green Imagined Land
Ian Hislop explores the rural olden days - an idealised vision of the countryside - in this concluding film of his series exploring Britain's obsession with the past.
April 23, 2014, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: April 9, 2014
Last Air Date: April 23, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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