Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 20, 2010 20:24:03 GMT
A documentary originally shown on BBC2 with Andrew Marr on The History of Modern Britain in now being aired on the Yesterday channel. It gave me a wry smile when reading the information for this episode of the programme on the TV Guide page:
I wondered about whether it occurred to Marr when making this programme, that we are in a way living in a similar times, although obviously the personalities and countries involved have changed. I wondered too which side of that particular fence he thought the BBC was sitting on, and his own role in it. I doubt he thought about himself as one of those furthering the advance of modern day fascism, or as we call it today - Islamism.
The irony is;
The saying goes - those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. Here is somebody actually making a programme on history that I doubt really learns from it, and is in fact one of those instrumental in making sure we repeat past mistakes.
On impulse, I thought I would check the BBC website to read the blurb they had written about this particular episode. You could think you were reading about a different show. The difference is, TV Guide does not have a particular agenda - unlike the BBC.
Andrew Marr examines Britain in the 1930s, when the financial crash on Wall Street sent shockwaves through the country and brought widespread chaos. As fascism continued its expansion across Europe, politicians at home seemed to choose to ignore the problem, except for the lone voice of Winston Churchill warning of the horrors to come
I wondered about whether it occurred to Marr when making this programme, that we are in a way living in a similar times, although obviously the personalities and countries involved have changed. I wondered too which side of that particular fence he thought the BBC was sitting on, and his own role in it. I doubt he thought about himself as one of those furthering the advance of modern day fascism, or as we call it today - Islamism.
The irony is;
The saying goes - those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. Here is somebody actually making a programme on history that I doubt really learns from it, and is in fact one of those instrumental in making sure we repeat past mistakes.
On impulse, I thought I would check the BBC website to read the blurb they had written about this particular episode. You could think you were reading about a different show. The difference is, TV Guide does not have a particular agenda - unlike the BBC.
Road to War
Andrew Marr's epic series charting the events that shaped Britain.
Britain basks in the heat of a long Edwardian summer, but tension and violence are never far below the surface. Women are attacked while campaigning for the vote, Ireland is divided over liberation from the British Empire, and dockers and miners strike for improved conditions and wages.
With magical archive footage and vivid storytelling, Andrew Marr explains why fears of a German invasion were stoked by the popular press. He also shows how the radical new Liberal Chancellor, David Lloyd George, faced a very modern dilemma: pensions or battleships, welfare or warfare? With the birth of flight and the movies, this is also a story of magnificent men in their flying machines, and future Hollywood stars Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel touring together across Britain.
The 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 strategy. Out on the streets, the people are eager for battle, determined to 'teach the Hun a lesson'. Britain is on the road to war.
Andrew Marr's epic series charting the events that shaped Britain.
Britain basks in the heat of a long Edwardian summer, but tension and violence are never far below the surface. Women are attacked while campaigning for the vote, Ireland is divided over liberation from the British Empire, and dockers and miners strike for improved conditions and wages.
With magical archive footage and vivid storytelling, Andrew Marr explains why fears of a German invasion were stoked by the popular press. He also shows how the radical new Liberal Chancellor, David Lloyd George, faced a very modern dilemma: pensions or battleships, welfare or warfare? With the birth of flight and the movies, this is also a story of magnificent men in their flying machines, and future Hollywood stars Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel touring together across Britain.
The 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 strategy. Out on the streets, the people are eager for battle, determined to 'teach the Hun a lesson'. Britain is on the road to war.