Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Four
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN

Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency (2011)

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Synopsis

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the Regency.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince

Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley looks at how the Prince Regent was obsessed with outdoing Napoleon not on the battlefield, but in opulence, bling and monumental architecture.

E2 Developing the Regency Brand

Lucy Worsley looks at how, under the Prince Regent's aegis, Britain celebrated Napoleon's defeat by refashioning itself in architecture and design.

E3 The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade

Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts.