Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain: Advance Britannia

In the first episode of a five-part series, Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but nearly bankrupt. As the Labour government sets out to build 'New Jerusalem', Britain is forced to hold out the begging bowl in Washington. Though Ealing Studios produces a series of very British comedies and there is a spirit of hope in the air, the British people's growing impatience with austerity threatens to take the country from bankruptcy to self-destruction.