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An impeccably rule-observing programme from the BBC: Art That Made Us reviewed

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

Art That Made Us; The Fall of the House of Maxwell

BBC2

Art That Made Us is an ambitious new series, firmly in the ‘history of something in a load of different objects’ category. That the something in question is Britain duly means that we get the BBC’s usual, and perhaps even very British, mix of deep patriotism on the one hand and deep suspicion of patriotism on the other.

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