I know it says the 17th in the article - but according to the Radio Times it was actually scheduled to be broadcast on last Sunday 10th November, and no repeat is indicated for 17th.

I missed it too. And one thing that makes it more plausible is that at the time Enoch Powell resigmed from the government in protest at brutality against prisoners in Kenya, a fact that is often forgotten.

One way and another this whole episode has been shunted out of public view very effectively.

The point is, nasty things happen when people try to hold empires together - and that is maybe a more appropriate context to fit Saddam into, rather than analogies with Hitler. (Even the use of gas against the Kurds harks back to what the Britishn had done back in the 1920s - though that had had less murderous consequences than Saddam's bungled butchery.)