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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen uncovers the story behind David Inshaw's The Badminton Game, which once hung at 10 Downing Street but now languishes in a vault, hidden from the public. Show more
Film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever. Show more
Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
Episode 3: The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade
1 hour on BBC Four
Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts. Show more
Danish crime thriller. Sarah and Jan check out an abandoned warehouse to look for evidence, but something unexpected happens. Meanwhile, a prime suspect disappears. Show more
Series presented by Peter Ackroyd about a group of visionary writers. Byron, Keats and Shelley lived short lives but the radical way they lived them would change the world. Show more
Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
Episode 3: The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade
1 hour on BBC Four
Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts. Show more
Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of the radical 18th-century British novelists such as Defoe, Swift and Fielding who established the literary genres we recognise today. Show more
Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He visits the Welsh village of Llanybri to discover the story behind Lynette Roberts's Poem from Llanybri. Show more
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen uncovers the story behind David Inshaw's The Badminton Game, which once hung at 10 Downing Street but now languishes in a vault, hidden from the public. Show more
Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
Episode 3: The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade
1 hour on BBC Four
Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts. Show more