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Season 1

  • S01E01 Part One - The Land of Make Believe

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC iPlayer

    The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it.

  • S01E02 Part Two - Suspicion

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC iPlayer

    On your own in a world of individual freedom. It's wonderful. But can you trust the old institutions? Suspicion begins to grow.

  • S01E03 Part Three - I Love a Millionaire

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC iPlayer

    Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed.

  • S01E04 Part Four - The Grinder

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC iPlayer

    Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants.

  • S01E05 Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC iPlayer

    Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag.