Ian Hislop's age of the do-gooders. Episode 3, Sinful sex & demon drink / director & series producer, Deborah Lee ; Wingspan Productions for BBC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hislop, Ian, 1960- on-screen presenter.

Lee, Deborah (Television producer and director), producer, director.

Wingspan Productions, publisher, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temperance--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Temperance.

Reformers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Reformers.

Social change--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social change.

Promiscuity--Great Britain--Prevention--History--19th century.

Promiscuity.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Television mini-series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 minutes)

Other Title:

Ian Hislop's age of the do-gooders. Episode 3, Sinful sex and demon drink

Age of the do-gooders. Episode 3, Sinful sex & demon drink

Sinful sex & demon drink

Place of Publication:

London, England : Wingspan Productions Ltd, 2010.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The pleasures and perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victorian reformers, campaigners and philanthropists. In attempting to wean Britons off alcohol and away from vice, Ian wonders whether the do-goofers, despite their extraordinary energy and success in transforming every other aspect if 19th century society, had finally bitten off more than they could chew. Mixing anecdote, wit and insight in surveying society just as boozed up and sexualised as our own, Ian recovers the hidden histories and remarkable lives of five individuals who gave their all to cure the nation's moral incontinence. But in doing so, Ian does also encounter the occasional skeleton in the closet ...

Participant:

Presenter: Ian Hislop.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed December 02, 2024).

OCLC:

1478552566