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Episode 3

BBC One - 24 Hours in the Past, Episode 3

The six celebrities work amid the bottle kilns of the Staffordshire potteries.

Living history series with Fi Glover. Six celebrities work in four Victorian workplaces. Their third 24 hours finds them amid the bottle kilns of the Staffordshire potteries.

Six celebrities travel back in time to the relentless graft of Victorian Britain, spending four days in four different 19th-century workplaces. Their third 24 hours finds them facing the gruelling inequality of the factories that were the powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution. 

Amidst the bottle kilns of the Staffordshire potteries, it's not just the machinery that's revolutionary! With no break since leaving the 19th-century equivalent of the motorway services - the coaching inn - Alistair McGowan, Ann Widdecombe, Miquita Oliver, Zoe Lucker, Tyger Drew-Honey and Colin Jackson now have kilns to keep alight, clay to prep and pots to make. It's hard work for very little pay and dissent is in the air. Will our apprentice potters, like their forebears, take up the call to arms for better working conditions and pay?

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Living history show. Six celebrities experience the relentless graft of Victorian Britain.

Living history show presented by Fi Glover. Six celebrities travel back in time to the relentless graft of Victorian Britain.

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