Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.
Episode 1
Ian Hislop charts how the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Episode 2
How the Victorians made the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.
Episode 3
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.
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