29 June '10

“It was strange that this whole episode came under the billing of an untold story. I recall learning at primary school about the contributions made my Polish airmen.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Partly the point of Channel 4’s three programmes, broadcast as part of the Bloody Foreigners strand [is] to remind us that immigrants have always played a part in our history.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It was an unapologetically intellectual and gently despairing affair, with vintage clips from forgotten BBC dramas drafted in for the purposes of clarification rather than nostalgia or behind-the-sleeve sniggers. Bravo.”
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian

“A curmudgeonly trudge, muttering darkly at a forest of fiction that has portrayed dads as tyrants at best…It was far from obvious whether [Andrew] Martin was claiming that novels were making this fall up, accurately charting it, or, in fact, its cause.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Whether bestselling novels are the best guides to changing values is worth arguing over.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Mercifully, miraculously, the documentary was mainly Yentob-free. The result was one of the most clear-eyed, lively and non-infuriating Imagines in memory.”
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian

“This film rather suggested that it helps enormously to live well before you get old.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent