Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain S01E04 · Having a Ball

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In the 1920s, Imperial Britannia was sliding from view and a more modern Britain tried everything new and asked endless questions about how we should live our lives. A great new age of experiment arrived in politics, writing, art, sex and drugs. Survivors of World War I threw themselves into the new urban scene of nightclubs, cocktails and jazz, where royalty, gangsters and Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with new money.

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1. 1 1. A New Dawn2009-10-28 · 1h 0mIn the first of a six-part series, Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Victoria; fighting an intractable
2. 2 2. Road to War2009-11-04 · 1h 0mThe assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo sets in motion the wheels of world war. In the corridors of Westminster old allies Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George fight over
3. 3 3. The Great War2009-11-11 · 1h 0mBritain gets its first taste of total war. Marr argues that no shock has ever hit these islands with quite the force of what became known as the Great War. It transformed the lives
4. 4 4. Having a Ball2009-11-18 · 1h 0mIn the 1920s, Imperial Britannia was sliding from view and a more modern Britain tried everything new and asked endless questions about how we should live our lives. A great new ag
5. 5 5. Little Britain2009-11-25 · 1h 0mFor Andrew Marr, the story of Britain in the 1930s was one of betrayal, political extremism, unemployment and... hats. Bowlers, trilbies, top hats and flat caps were everywhere, as
6. 6 6. Britannia at Bay2009-12-02 · 1h 0mMarr's story of 'the people's war' begins with the defeat that came to define modern Britain's national spirit: Dunkirk. In 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of the Germa