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Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain: Episode 5: New Britannia

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Episode 5: New Britannia

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Britain enters the uncharted waters of the post-Thatcher era.

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during the Thatcher years, but now boom is turning to bust.

In the final part of Andrew Marr's epic national saga, Britain enters the uncharted waters of the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during the Thatcher years but now boom is turning to bust. Britain feels more vulnerable than ever to rapid international change - from the influence of powerful new global market forces to global warming. Just when many in post-war Britain are getting used to the good things in life, it seems we are going to have to start giving up our big cars and foreign holidays - or at least go back to some form of rationing. But who could persuade us to do this? Churchill had that kind of power in the 1940s, but which politician would we trust and follow today? 

Step forward the unassuming Brixton boy John Major and New Labour's smiling master of spin Tony Blair. From Black Wednesday to war in Iraq, from the British inventor of the World Wide Web to millennium fever, this is Andrew Marr's up-to-the moment story of Britain's extraordinary transformation from imperial power to an island at the heart of the global economy.

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Andrew Marr presents a history of Britain from the end of the Second World War to the start of the third millennium.

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