Had you been brought up in a family like mine, you’d have no doubt about the most significant date in the twentieth century. It was 26 July 1945, when Clement Attlee’s Labour party, fighting on a socialist platform, achieved a landslide victory. In doing so, Attlee crushed and humiliated Winston Churchill, the man who had inspired a nation in its darkest hour and led it to victory against Hitler. Churchill: When Britain Said No (BBC2, 25 May) examined that puzzling political event, using archive film, an impressive array of historians and eyewitnesses and a lot of full-scale dramatisations. The Tories went into the campaign with the slogan “Help Him Finish the Job”. Labour, meanwhile, proclaimed “Let’s Face the Future”, which better caught the nat