At the time of her death 100 years ago, Queen
Victoria was the central figure in an empire which dominated the world, yet for years she had been a recluse. As part of the Victorian Season, historian Amanda Foreman examines Victoria's complicated and tumultuous reign. Featuring extracts from interviews with people who knew or encountered her, and Victoria's own voice-traced through her letters and diaries, and even a recording of her on an early gramophone cylinder. Producer Bob Dickinson