Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He takes a wry and witty look at the ups and downs of the stiff upper lip since the First World War.

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He argues that we have the Victorians to thank for making the stiff upper lip a genuinely national characteristic.

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He charts how and why the stiff upper lip emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.