Victorian Scandals
Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Frontiers of Science
03-09-197655 minA group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.
- Ep 2
2.Skittles
10-09-197655 minThe story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.
- Ep 3
3.The Portland Millions
17-09-197655 minAnnie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
- Ep 4
4.A Pitcher of Snakes
7.024-09-197655 minAuthors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.
- Ep 5
5.Hannah
01-10-197655 minScholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.
- Ep 6
6.The Fruits of Philosophy
08-10-197655 minAn attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.
- Ep 7
7.Beloved
10-10-197655 minWhen Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.
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