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Monday February 16, 2009

The Victorians - in pictures.

Promising new series started last night on BBC1. It is by the news journalist Jeremy Paxman often seen on Newsnight and as the quiz master on University Challenge. The series is about the Victorian era but he brings paintings into the program showing how the pictures reflected that era. Last night was about cities that were created in the Victorian age. He rightly shows that most of the pictures painted then showed off how good things were but ignored the squalor, poverty which were prevalent in those times. Some artists were brave enough to paint the bad side of this era. Unlike other historical shows he does not try and do the whole program solo but meets people who can explain more about the time and show off some of the marvels of the age. London's sewers were built in those times and still serve us well today. More on the series here

( Feb 16 2009, 12:00:01 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]

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I saw the episode by chance and quite liked it so it is series linked on my Sky+ box (still wish it was a TiVO - oh how I miss the flexibility of TiVO).

Posted by Darren Moffat on February 19, 2009 at 05:32 AM PST #