TV Review: The Battle for Britain's Heroes (Channel 4)

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Afua invited us to look into the “darker”, “suppressed” side of Churchill’s record, the one where he was uncovered as a rotten old racist, careless about, for example, the lives of Bengali peasants in the famine of 1943, or the “uncivilised tribes” of Iraq he was happy to bomb with poison gas in 1920. The young fogey eventually agreed with Afua that Churchill “certainly got India wrong”, and Afua agreed with Jacob that Churchill’s long career was “nuanced”. Afua managed to invite one of her Twitter trolls to meet her, but they seemed to get along surprisingly well face to face – no “gammon” action there. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free If I didn’t know better, I might think that was just a little morsel of clickbait published by an ailing newspaper, predictably picked up by telly folk looking to spark a social media storm and then another Afua Hirsch column to complete the kind of negative feedback loop that the British media has degenerated into these days.