Philip Dodd and guests reflect on safe cities past and present and discuss Joseph Conrad's terrorist novel The Secret Agent. Show more
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Free Thinking
Landmark: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted to Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now. With Jerry White, Simon Heffer, Kathryn Hughes and Jonathan Myerson. Show more
Free Thinking
Are We Living Through a New 18th Century?
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd explores the parallels between 18th-century London and now, with MP Kwasi Kwarteng, historians Helen Berry, Jerry White and AN Wilson and playwright April de Angelis. Show more
The Victorian Slum
Episode 4: The 1890s
59 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the 1890s, when Britain was slowly recovering from an economic depression. Show more
The Victorian Slum
Episode 5: The 1900s
59 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In the final episode the slum dwellers have moved into the 20th century and social change is in the air. Show more