History class would slap this hard if textbooks were this unhinged.
Stand-up comedian Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years, from WWI through to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, this show places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand.
Writing
Newman's dense wordplay crams a semester into 46 minutes.
Direction
Grundy mashes archive footage into visual punchlines.
Director
Sean Grundy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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