Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain YouMarch 16, 2016

Postwar culture has not merely been driven by the same qualities and impulses that shaped Victorian Britain - it has also demonstrated many of the same anxieties and preoccupations of that period. In particular, the two main concerns of the Victorian age were the state of the nation, and what might be termed our civilising mission - the desire to export British values to the far corners of globe.

Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You was broadcast on BBC2 at Wednesday 16 March 2016, 06:38. This episode was initially placed on Wednesday 18 November 2015.