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Dreams and Nightmares

The VictoriansSeries 1
Episode 4 of 4

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

Jeremy Paxman discovers how, in the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money and morality, preferring to create a world filled with medieval knights and damsels, dreams and fairies, sex and death.

He meets a pair of spiritualist mediums, visits a collection of Victorian nudes and is allowed into Broadmoor hospital in search of mad Victorian artist Richard Dadd.

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Mon 29 Jan 201823:30
BBC Four

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Credits

PresenterJeremy Paxman
ProducerPhil Cairney
Series ProducerJulian Birkett

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 Mar 200921:00
    BBC One & BBC HD
  • Fri 13 Mar 200921:00
    BBC HD
  • Tue 17 Mar 200901:10
    BBC One except Scotland & Wales
  • Mon 24 Aug 200921:00
    BBC HD
  • Tue 9 Feb 201000:00
    BBC HD
  • Mon 24 Oct 201622:00
    BBC Four
  • Mon 29 Jan 201823:30
    BBC Four