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Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
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Watching1. The Frontiers of Science
A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.
2. Skittles
The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.
3. The Portland Millions
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
4. A Pitcher of Snakes
Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.
5. Hannah
Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.
6. The Fruits of Philosophy
An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.
7. Beloved
When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.
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