Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency - Season 1
Episode List
E1 - Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince
Aired: August 29, 2011
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
Aired: September 05, 2011
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
Aired: September 13, 2011
Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts.