Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
by:
Nick Baker (author)
John Woolf (author)
Stephen Fry (narrator)
On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder. Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether...
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On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder.
Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether darker reality. The stories we’re told offer a different perspective on an era which underwent massive social change. As education, trade, technology and culture blossomed, why was there an undercurrent of the ‘forbidden’ festering beneath Victorian society?
Across 12 episodes, Stephen presents a series of true accounts of the dangerous low life and debauched high life of Victorian Britain.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B07JB3HZD7
Publish date: 2018-10-19
Edition language: English
It's that time of year again! Happy Holidays to everyone! Or rather, a belated Merry Christmas, as this review came out a few days later than I'd planned. Of course, it also gave me a chance to include my 100th read book this year, Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets. This is a feature I've been hop...
20% of why I bought this was a mild interest in 'Victorian Secrets', but 80% was because Stephen Fry was narrating it. Neither disappointed. If you don't like Stephen Fry - and I don't know how that would be possible - you won't like this audiobook. If you do, you'll probably enjoy it even if ...
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