Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Name: Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-05-22
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Andrew Marr

Overview

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain is a 2007 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the end of the Second World War onwards. The series is highly praised and resulted in a follow up series covering the period 1900 to 1945 called Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain. A book released by Marr at accompanying the series and bearing the same name also details this period of history.

Episodes

S01E01 Advance Britannia

May 22, 2007 60 min

Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but badly beaten up and nearly bankrupt. With astonishing archive and telling anecdote, he tells the story of Britain's extraordinary struggle for national and...

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S01E02 The Land Of Lost Content

May 29, 2007 60 min

The second programme in the series explodes the popular image of the 1950s as a golden age of order and prosperity, and of lost content. A Conservative government is back in power. The economy appears...

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S01E03 Paradise Lost

June 5, 2007 60 min

Andrew Marr examines the age of Harold Wilson's classless society; a country excited by new technology, modern architecture and the scary futurism of Doctor Who. Wilson attempted to connect with the 60s spirit of progress...

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S01E04 Revolution

June 12, 2007 60 min

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British national character. Promising to restore order, confidence and national pride, Margaret Thatcher unleashed a dramatic and divisive transformation...

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S01E05 New Britannia

June 19, 2007 60 min

In the final part of Andrew Marr's epic national saga, Britain enters the uncharted waters of the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during the Thatcher years but now boom is turning to bust. Britain...

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