Patrick Wright examines English identity through the writer GK Chesterton, a Little Englander who opposed Britain's imperialism and the state interfering with people's liberty. Show more
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In the first of three programmes Patrick Wright challenges the new threats to English Identity by tracing similar fears back to the 19th century and the ideas of William Cobbett. Show more
Patrick Wright meets the philosopher Roger Scruton, who argues that the EU has encroached on the fundamentals of Englishness: the common law, and the landscape. Show more
Patrick Wright begins the second series of his examination of English identity under threat with Orwell's famous essay in the face of Nazi aggression, 'The Lion and the Unicorn'. Show more
Patrick travels through John Betjeman's London to explore the poet's contempt for the town planners, or 'plansters', that he accused of wrecking the England he loved. Show more
Patrick Wright focuses on Barbara Castle, the Red Queen, the Englishness of her socialism and her fierce resistance to English culture being subsumed by the American Vulgar. Show more
Patrick Wright explores how Englishness changes when it feels threatened by outside forces. How did 70s Kent orchards and villages respond to the coming of juggernauts and the EEC? Show more