Lord John Krebs talks to Jim al-Khalili about birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers. Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life Episode guide
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Alternative Homes
30/30 Historian Amanda Vickery reflects on the enduring pull of a home of one's own.
First broadcast: 06 Nov 2009
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Dunroamin
29/30 Prof Vickery listens to the experiences of those who moved to the suburbs.
First broadcast: 05 Nov 2009
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Exporting the Home
28/30 Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British struggled to create in India.
First broadcast: 04 Nov 2009
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The Garden Indoors
27/30 The Victorians contrived increasingly ingenious ways to domesticate nature.
First broadcast: 03 Nov 2009
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Education in the Moral Home
26/30 Prof Vickery explores home education from the perspective of mother and child.
First broadcast: 02 Nov 2009
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Neat and Not too Showy
25/30 The homes of 19th-century people lower down the social scale.
First broadcast: 30 Oct 2009
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Courtship and Setting Up Home
24/30 Two 18th-century marriages and how the husbands prepared new houses for their bride.
First broadcast: 29 Oct 2009
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Science and Nature at Home
23/30 How eccentric homes reflected wider 18th-century ideas about science and nature.
First broadcast: 28 Oct 2009
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Taste
22/30 The story of an 18th-century couple who spend life doing up their magnificent houses.
First broadcast: 27 Oct 2009
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Magnificence
21/30 The story of a celebrity divorce - a scandal, because the husband was the prime minister.
First broadcast: 26 Oct 2009
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Widowers
20/30 The story of two different widowers and their desperate search for a new wife.
First broadcast: 23 Oct 2009
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Widows
19/30 How the richest widow in 18th-century England spent her late husband's coal fortune.
First broadcast: 22 Oct 2009
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Spinsters
18/30 Amanda Vickery tells the story of an admirable and disabled spinster.
First broadcast: 21 Oct 2009
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Bachelors
17/30 The complicated arrangements that limited a man's search for a suitable wife.
First broadcast: 20 Oct 2009
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Servants
16/30 Historian Amanda goes below stairs to find out about domestic workers in a household.
First broadcast: 19 Oct 2009
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Domestic Violence
15/30 Amanda Vickery reveals the dark side of private life, and how the home became a trap.
First broadcast: 16 Oct 2009
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Secrets at Home - Illicit Guests
14/30 Stories from adultery cases about women sneaking lovers into the house.
First broadcast: 15 Oct 2009
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Men at Home
13/30 In her hidden home history, Amanda reveals the stories of family 'black sheep'.
First broadcast: 14 Oct 2009
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Domestic Harmony
12/30 The importance of music-making at home - and the chances it created for finding a partner.
First broadcast: 13 Oct 2009
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Tea
11/30 Thanks to the introduction of tea, even people who were not rich could afford to entertain
First broadcast: 12 Oct 2009
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Mistress and Servants
10/30 The household diaries of Elizabeth Shackleton, trying to run a house in Lancashire.
First broadcast: 09 Oct 2009
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Ornamenting the Home
9/30 Historian Amanda reveals sewing was a housewife's duty.
First broadcast: 08 Oct 2009
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Kitchen Physic
8/30 Historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.
First broadcast: 07 Oct 2009
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All My Life is A Struggle With Dirt
6/30 How women cleaned and cared for their families in a household moral mission.
First broadcast: 05 Oct 2009
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Every Man's Home is His Castle
5/30 Elaborate rituals of locking up at night protected the house from burglars.
First broadcast: 02 Oct 2009
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
2/30 How the home protected from dark forces outside.
First broadcast: 29 Sep 2009
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