very small doses
I think you mean a damn good kicking
Very much so and the American Civil War series from the same stable.
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Neil Oliver always makes me feel he's about to leap out of the TV and head butt me!
The World at War was outstanding. I saw it repeated on iPlayer a couple of years back.
Funnily enough, I have Nairn's London right next to my mouse - a great source of info for pub bores like me and described by Jonathan Meades as 'A masterpiece...Nairn was a poet'.
Dan Snow in very small doses. And Tony Baldrick was annoying in an otherwise good programme.
...and Arthur Negus was always a laugh.
The Southbank Show was good as was its precursor, Aquarius.
And then there was also this load of hokum, starting in 1980.
Nobody appears to have mentioned Fred Dibnah.