Season 1 Episodes
3 episodes
1
Emergence
Ian Hislop charts how the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th century.
2
Heyday
How the Victorians made the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.
3
Last Hurrah?
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.