Presented by John Tusa
The British Empire Exhibition
In 1924, 28 million people visited the last of the great imperial exhibitions at Wembley - now it is almost forgotten. Going Mad in the 19th Century
In 1807 there were 2,000 certified lunatics in England. By 1880 there were more than that in one institution. Robert Owen
Celebrated as defender of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, founder of the Cooperative Movement and a father of British socialism; was Robert Owen in fact a Victorian capitalist, his social reforms designed for greater profits?
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN