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The Victorians

Series 1

Episode 4: Dreams and Nightmares

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Jeremy Paxman discovers how, in the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money and morality, preferring to create a world filled with medieval knights and damsels, dreams and fairies, sex and death.

He meets a pair of spiritualist mediums, visits a collection of Victorian nudes and is allowed into Broadmoor hospital in search of mad Victorian artist Richard Dadd. Show less

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