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TOURING BRITAIN - THE VICTORIAN WAY BBC4
Feb 2009
What a wonderfully simple idea for a travel programme: one man and his 1887 Baedeker guide book embark on a quest to see what is left of the touristic fleshpots of Victorian times. It is delightfully underproduced (when our travelling companion, the architectural historian David Heathcote, rings a doorbell to visit a former musuem, nobody answers) and a rare gem given the current glut of comedians taking camera crews on holiday.
- The Sunday Times.
TOURING BRITAIN - THE VICTORIAN WAY BBC4
Feb 2009
For historian David Heathcote, old guidebooks lead you to overlooked remnants of the past. Armed with an 1887 Baedeker guide to Great Britain, he retraces a likely route that American Cunard passengers might have taken from Liverpool to York. The guide's author, JF Muirhead, was interested in people, politics and industry and didn't view the country as some heritage theme park. He encouraged visitors to visit salt mines, mills and slate quarries and take an interest in the free trade ideals of Manchester, though he thought Leeds offered "little to detain the tourist". Heathcote also finds unexpected pleasures in the faded Victoriana of Llandudno and Roman bath remains underneath a Spudulike in Chester.
- The Telegraph.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/BroadcastnowArticle.aspx?intStoryID=167950
Published 22 Mar 2007
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Robin Williams recalls long hours playing with toy soldiers, alone and ignored in the attic of his parents' mansion. A four-year-old David Blunkett stands lonely and bewildered in a boarding school for the blind, abruptly uprooted from the warm family home. The Duchess of York is abandoned by her mother at the age of 12. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Fry is buggered by an older boy at school. Sharon Osbourne breaks down and cries.
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