If You’re Making An Authored Documentary – Be Sure to Wear Pink

Both David Dimbleby and Andrew Marr have major documentaries on our screens at the moment.
Dimbleby is presenting How We Built Britain, in which he travels the country in his trusty Land Rover visiting buildings that help explain the story of our nation. He does so wearing a pink shirt.
Meanwhile Marr is presenting his History of Modern Britain (probably not the correct link but BBC2’s baffling website is painful to use). He spends an episode a week broadly speaking covering a decade of British politics. He travels the country in a blue shirt with a pink v-neck sweater.
I suppose it’s because these programmes are shot out of sequence that it’s easier to dress the presenters in the same clothes for a full series. It’s just that to the viewer, it does begin to look like Marr and Dimbleby only a have a single shirt each. I realise wardrobe probably bought a dozen of each, but nonetheless, if you choose pink, we are going to notice!


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