Power: the Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846 | A Revolution in Five Acts

The 1860s | The Victorian Slum

A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In this episode, the slum dwellers move into the 1860s, when London was t...

The 1880s | The Victorian Slum

A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the turbulent 1880s: unemployment was sky high, livi...

The 1870s | The Victorian Slum

A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers live through a dire economic depression that blighted t...

03: The Circus | Britain's Best Buildings

This edition visits the Circus, a perfect circle of palatial terraced houses in the centre of Regency Bath.

Episode 4 | 24 Hours in the Past

Six celebrities work in four Victorian workplaces. The six celebrities spend their final 24 hours in the workhouse.

The 1890s | The Victorian Slum

A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the 1890s, when Britain was slowly recovering from a...

The 1900s | The Victorian Slum

A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In the final episode the slum dwellers have moved into the 20th century and social cha...

01: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working conditio...

01: Painting the Town | The Victorians

Jeremy Paxman begins his exploration into Victorian Britain by investigating the most dramatic event of the age - the explosion of gre...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable...

04: Dreams and Nightmares | The Victorians

Jeremy Paxman discovers how, during the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money an...

05: How to be a Victorian | 1900s House

After four weeks of the drudgery of a Victorian level of housework, Joyce comes up with a 1900 solution: finding a servant to do the ...

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victorian re...

05: Social Progress | What the Victorians Did For Us

How the opportunities in employment and education created the middle classes and gave them such luxuries as their own to...

S02E01 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a docto...

S02E01: The Church in Danger | The Battle for Britain's Soul

The 18th century was a time of great upheaval, with forces old and new poised to attack the established Protesta...

The Bristol Entertainment

A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidities that lie behind the facades of a great city.

Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits

Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative look at Victorian attitudes to the poor, exploring the views of five...

02: Home Sweet Home | The Victorians

Jeremy Paxman continues his exploration of the Victorian world by entering the Victorian home, a haven of order. But he soon discovers a...

02: Time Travellers | 1900s House

In Somerset, the Bowlers indulge in a last supper of junk food before saying goodbye to the 20th Century and hello to life in the year 1900.