The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II Various channels
Crossfire BBC One | iPlayer
Bloodlands BBC One | iPlayer
Am I Being Unreasonable? BBC One | iPlayer
And so we watched, on televisions, on screens, all over Britain and globally; hours melting into hours for the long goodbye to the Queen. I say “we”, but not everybody watched, even though the funeral plunged much of Britain into ersatz lockdown. Still, after days of rumination on the meaning of that queue, and other interminable filler (I ended up flinching at the sight of Paddington Bear), here, at last, was the main event.
