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Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?

Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII

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On this episode of The Critic Podcast, Deputy Editor Graham Stewart is joined by Professor Phillips O’Brien and The Critic’s sketch-writer Robert Hutton to discuss whether the wartime myth of the “plucky Brit“ is an accurate way of viewing Britain in the 1940s.

 

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