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Jeremy Paxman takes a journey into Victorian Britain.

Using his love of Victorian painting as a starting point, Jeremy Paxman takes a journey into Victorian Britain.

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The Victorians: Series 1

Jeremy Paxman

Phil Cairney

Julian Birkett

The Victorians: Series 1: Episode 4: Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares

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Jeremy Paxman discovers how artists led a revolt against Victorian values of morality.

Jeremy Paxman discovers how, during the dying years of Victoria's reign, artists led a revolt against Victorian values of money and morality.

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.

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