http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00p138b/Empire_A_Taste_for_Power/
Ok Jeremy Paxman. Tough, investigative journalism is all well and good when you're talking to politicans who obviously have a hidden agenda. Asking the same question over and over again makes a good stunt and can actually reap some rewards by penetrating a professional facade.
Doing it in a documentary on the British Empire is just pathetic. There is no 'right' memory of how Empire was experienced. People are allowed to say that they think that the British were brutal colonisers who brought nothing good. Repeating the question until they embarrassedly say something positive or ambiguous about the British is not clever, it's just bullying through authority and leading questions.
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