The paradox of a politician who was a force for social change, a negotiator and untiring philanderer.

Daisy Warwick, the mistress of Edward VII, and convert to socialism dictates her memoirs to Frank Harris.

A night at an Edwardian music-hall both on stage and backstage, where the performers are organising a strike.

Is the image of the heroic Boer War General correct? This programmes takes a closer look at the founder of the Scout movement.

Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, starts behaving like his character.

Story of the author of The Railway Children who lived in a menage a trois with her husband and his mistress.

The story about the financier, founder of John Bull, fraud and swindler.

Henry Royce, electrical engineer, had just made his first car. Meanwhile Charles Rolls, a motor dealer, is looking for a reliable model to sell.