Kenneth Clark's Civilisation 1/13 The Skin of Our Teeth

Clark uses an extremely old-fashioned definition of "civilisation", as if it were a superior thing - whereas the reality has always include war, oppression and the gradual increase of the destruction of the natural environment - to the point where, now, we have climate change, mass extinctions of species and an existential threat to this round of evolution.
The rate of global warming will speed up exponentially with the increasing quantities of methane released from the melting permafrost of the arctic and subarctic regions. The current rate multiplies ten times with each passing year.
If this is "civilisation", I'd say it's doomed without first respecting the laws of physics.

Brits have that very attractive way of telling a story.

It is a great series. The series was called "A personal view".

Without reading the rest of the review or knowing by whom, we can't say if the sentence is fair at all, or just a snide attempt to discredit someone achieving a lot more than the mere critic.

You left out “educated” among his qualifications. Any particular reason?

In these days we think about that. That's our present [i]zeitgeist.[/i]