Ian Hislop's Olden Days
Ian Hislop explores the British obsession with the past. He reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.
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Ian Hislop
as Self - Presenter
Miri Rubin
as Self - Queen Mary University of London
Jonathan Bate
as Self - Worcester College, Oxford University
Vic Gammon
as Self - Newcastle University
Jesse Norman
as Self - Author, 'Edmund Burke'
Jane Haslam
as Self - Vicar of North Petherton
Jonathan Glancey
as Self - Design Historian
Allan Massie
as Self - Novelist and Journalist
Luke Loader
as Self - Glastonbury Abbey
Robin Darwall Smith
as Self - Archivist, University College, Oxford
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