Imagine spreading your language so far and wide that it becomes universal. That’s what the English did – and that’s no small feat! However, one can argue that, still, they have an identity crisis, in a post-Empire and post-Brexit world.

So, in this episode, we ask: who are the English, as a people? How do they see themselves in a country that calls itself various names? And how do they see themselves under the umbrella of “Britishness”?

The book mentioned in this episode is “The English: A Portrait of a People”, by Jeremy Paxman.

If you would like to listen to Winston Churchill’s famous wartime speech, you can find it here: https://tinyurl.com/4ehjjsxc

The 1942 patriotic film “In Which We Serve” can also be found on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/3cw7m39m

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