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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.
Breaking the Seal
Tax
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Tracing the extraordinary range of taxes imposed by monarchs & parliaments thru the ages, from wealth & poll taxes to tariffs on wigs, pets, windows & hearths.
Breaking the Seal
Military Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Bettany Hughes examines how British soldiers have been persuaded to fight for their country.
Breaking the Seal
Church Records
- Broadcast
- 2000 (29 mins)
Meticulously kept records from down the centuries reveal how the church wielded extraordinary power over its subjects. Bettany HUGHES’s discoveries inc seven women who were ordered to seduce an impotent man.
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