This week, the mockumentary Cunk on Britain (Tuesday, BBC2, 10pm) reaches “a time when all English kings had to be called George”. It’s an era of memorable poets — “Wordsworth. Shelley. Blake. And the other ones” — through to the “changequake” of the Industrial Revolution and half-man half-train Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built Britain’s first, and disappointingly flat, white-knuckle ride, the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
The various academic experts invited to enlighten gormless presenter Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) are getting canny. Romantic specialist Greg Dart is taken aback by Cunk’s notion that a lot of poems were written “By Ron”, but by the time she’s asking who Jane Austen was, he’s caught up. “Jane Austen was a woman from Hampshire who wrote novels.” “That’s it?” “That’s it.” This is cake-and-eat-it satire from the BBC, poking fun at its own style of lavish documentary where no presenter can remain in one location for longer than a sentence.
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