Season 1
Episodes • 2012

1. A Chosen People?
60 minDiarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. In this episode, he chronicles the roots of the idea that the English think themselves better than others.
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2. A Tolerant People?
60 minDiarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. He challenges the commonly held assumption that the English have a long tradition of tolerance.
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3. A White and Christian People?
60 minDiarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. In the final programme, he examines the idea that there is an ethnic core to Englishness.
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