Season 1

Ian Hislop charts how the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th century.

How the Victorians made the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.

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.