Love and Marriage: A 20th Century Romance feels like something you might have seen on BBC4 before: it is full of jolly black-and-white footage going back a century, stuff expressly shot to extol a certain British way of life, which now looks not only quaint but a little fiendish. It's all underlined – or undermined – by testimony from people who actually lived though the period. The witnesses are, of course, the more precious resource. Fortunately the programme was no less insightful for its familiarity. It boasted a particularly strong collection of talking heads, crowned by the marvellous Diana Athill, who took us back to her parents' courtship in 1916. "Granny believed that no lady could possible let a man kiss her," she said, "unless they were going to get married."
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