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  • The Trouble With Love

    Adoring Women

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    The programme’s presenter Amanda VIckery uses the (He of Eleanor of Aquitalne and her family to explore the poetry and songs of Southern France in the 12th Century. The poets at that time (known as...

  • The Trouble With Love

    Prudence versus Passion

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    2/6 part series pres by historian Amanda VICKERY who traces the history of love. She looks at 17th century marriage dictated by rank, power & wealth; & story of Anne MURRAY who fell in love with a courtier...

  • The Trouble With Love

    Wild at Heart

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    This programme uses the life and loves of Percy Bysshe Shelley to explore the legacy of the Romantics on the history of romantic love. Using original love letters and documents Amanda Vickery finds that the...

  • The Trouble With Love

    Courting Disaster

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    Examining an 18th century case in which unwanted pregnancy, misunderstanding & rejection led a widow & her lover to court. Until a 1753 act of parliament, marriages were sealed through sex, presents or...

  • The Trouble With Love

    Heartbreak Heroines

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    Prog considers the transformation of people’s love lives during the 1920s. After the end of the First World War, heroics were out & the sexual side of relationships began to blossom. It was the beginning...

  • The Trouble With Love

    Pandora’s Box

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    Exploring the impact of the upheaval of the 1970’s on our ideas of love. Three people talk about their love lives from the 1970’s onwards while Amanda investigates how people actually felt about love at...

  • From Here to Modernity

    From Here to Modernity

    Broadcast
    2001 (29 mins)

    Programme three picks up the story in the 1970s, at Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in West London. By now the Modern Movement is in retreat. Against a backdrop of riots, industrial unrest and recession,...

  • From Here to Modernity

    From Here to Modernity

    Broadcast
    2001 (29 mins)

    Programme two begins during the building boom after the Second World War, when the reconstruction programmes of ravaged cities and the growth of the Welfare State requires the building of thousands of homes,...

  • From Here to Modernity

    From Here to Modernity

    Broadcast
    2001 (29 mins)

    Programme One profiles the founding Modernist architects and examines their vision and some of the Movement’s early buildings. It also highlights how Britain’s architectural establishment attempted to...

  • Breaking the Seal

    Domesday

    Broadcast
    2000 (29 mins)

    1/6 part of History 2000 strand. Bettany HUGHES examines some of official records that have documented last 1,000 yrs. This week Domesday - Bettany goes to public record office in Kew to see the Domesday Book.