Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and cities. In each programme Alice studies one key period in history by delving into the secrets of a historic town that encapsulates the era, providing an accurate impression of what life was really like at key moments in our turbulent past. Alice tells the story of the Regency period by studying the history of Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town. Alice attends a period society ball, investigates the rigid social hierarchy of the age and explores the Regency fondness for enemas.