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Dreams and Nightmares

Episode 4 of 4

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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Mon 29 Jan 2018 23:30

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Presenter Jeremy Paxman
Producer Phil Cairney
Series Producer Julian Birkett

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