Watch Victorian Sensations
2019
|1 season
|Documentary
2019
|1 season
|Documentary
SEASONS
May 22, 2019. 60 min
Dr Hannah Fry explores how science and technology transformed Britain in the 1890s, giving rise to the modern world - and many present-day anxieties.
May 29, 2019. 60 min
Actor Paul McGann discovers how fears of moral and imperial decline terrified 1890s Britain - informing the daring plays of Oscar Wilde and the fantastical stories of HG Wells.
June 5, 2019. 60 min
Philippa Perry explores the 1890s, where the invention of motion pictures goes hand in hand with a deep belief in the paranormal.