Building Victorian Britain
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45:00Building Victorian Britain
How Britains first Super Sewer cleaned up the capital.
50:00The Victorians built the most advanced ships in the world.
45:00How the burgeoning rail network changed Victorian Britain.
Series 1
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45:00Examining cotton's key role in the birth of mass production.
1:00:00Victorians introduced gas power, revolutionising the home.
1:00:00 55:00How Victorian engineers revolutionised public transport.
Series 2 55:00
55:00Presenter Michael Buerk discovers how the Victorians instituted a revolution in law and order, created the first modern police force and built the prisons Britain still relies on today to house its criminals. He begins in Spike Island, County Cork, dubbed 'Ireland's Alcatraz'.
55:00Presenter Michael Buerk discovers how bold Victorian experiments and cathedrals of medicine built Britain, and revolutionised the medical world. He begins in Edinburgh with murderers Burke and Hare, revealing the gruesome roots of modern anatomy and the macabre justice doled out for those caught flaunting the system.