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Emergence

Episode number: 1

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

Heyday

Episode number: 2

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

Last Hurrah?

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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.