Kat and Helen Arney present revisionist revelations about our Victorian forebears.
Radio 4,Β·4 episodes
1. Squirrels
Do grey squirrels prove Victorians were a bunch of environmental vandals?
3. Cars
Was the history of the car nearly different? Did the Victorians invent the electric car?
4. Darwinism
Whose idea was more powerful - Darwin's good one or his cousin Francis Galton's awful one?
5. Toilets
Are toilets a case of Victorian genius, or did they flush away our most precious resource?