Peter Snow presents a series in which each programme's s stories come from the pages of an archive newspaper.
2: The Observer - 3 September 1797
Dora Jordan , bearer often children to her lover, the future William IV, is on stage at Margate;
Nelson is on the verge of quitting the navy- eight years before the Battle of Trafalgar; and Britannia rules - on the face of the world's first machine-made coins. Producer Andrew Green