FORCES OF NATURE
21 June 2002
Nature was turned into a revolutionary idea by radicals and poets like Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth. But the blood and violence which accompanied the French Revolution spread disillusion among many idealists...
VICTORIA AND HER SISTERS
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June 2002
How Britain's women, from the Queen to Chartist charladies and West Indian nurses attempted to galvanize social reform for their Victorian sisters.
THE EMPIRE OF GOOD INTENTIONS
5 July 2002
The British Empire promised peace, stability and prosperity but this did not materialise for Ireland and India. Gladstone and Disraeli promoted very different visions of Empire, but despite their lofty ideals, Schama observes how "common humanity was sacrificed to the fetish of the market".
THE TWO WINSTONS
12 July 2002
The last programme in the series explores the fate of the country through two world wars, the slump and a nervous postwar peace. It focuses on the different reactions of two of its greatest figures, Winston Churchill and George Orwell.
