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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Last Night's TV: Prof Olusoga's disjointed narration makes this WW2 history slow going
History is a succession. Of full stops. Everything begins and then. Later. Everything ends, which. Is why historians talk about. The different periods. Of history.
The show’s researchers have picked out two similar mansion blocks of flats, one in London’s Marylebone district and the other in Berlin — and it’s the house on Pfalzburger Strasse that has the more interesting inhabitants. Their neighbours included a chef, Bonifatius Folli, who came from West Africa to be the Duke of Mecklenburg’s personal cook, and later worked as a language teacher at Berlin University. It’s hard to imagine an audience that size for a movie, but social historian Matthew Sweet popped in to explain that, in the Depression years, it was often cheaper to spend the evening in the warmth of the flicks than to have the electric heater on at home.
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