1990s: Cool Britannia

Matt Lucas narrates another set of eye-popping, brain-spinning clips in the series that asks whether the television we watched tells us about who we were. The 1990s was the decade of Cool Britannia. Brand Britain was selling British artists, designers, fashion and music around the globe. While the rest of the world was watching the UK, we were glued to some of the boldest, brashest television ever to hit our screens. It was a decade when on The Word people were asked to submerge themselves in a bath of horse manure, lick dandruff and eat toenails; TFI Friday was stripping things bare; and The Girlie Show had a Wanker of the Week.