About this season
Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.
Episodes (3)
E1
1. Emergence
Aired 2 October 2012 • 60 min
Ian Hislop charts how the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th century.
E2
2. Heyday
Aired 9 October 2012 • 60 min
How the Victorians made the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.
E3
3. Last Hurrah?
Aired 15 October 2012 • 60 min
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.