Category Archives: Regency TV

Our series about the ‘Prince of Whales’ and the Regency is back on BBC4 on Tuesday 8 Jan, 8pm

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Lucy

On Tuesday 8rd January, at 8pm, our series ‘Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency’ is back for another repeat. It was in three parts, for brilliant BBC4 once again (yes, the brainy channel).  The Prince Regent officially became … Continue reading →

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Regency last episode tonight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Lucy

I hope you managed to find tonight’s episode, bumped from Monday to Tuesday by the Buckingham Palace programme with Fiona Bruce (and the admirable Kathryn Jones, my colleague from the Royal Collection).  Tonight it’s the Peterloo Massacre and the Luddites … Continue reading →

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Dirty dancing tonight!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Lucy

Hello, and tonight on ‘Elegance and Decadence, The Age of The Regency’, we’ll be doing some dirty dancing, better known as waltzing … read more about it here. We’ll also be covering sugar sculpture, Greek architecture, Buckingham Palace, Regent Street … Continue reading →

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Regency showtime tonight…

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Lucy

Tonight’s the night!  Six months of hard work by everyone mentioned on that card plus many more.  That’s six months of early starts, rain and dangers to health (including hot air balloons, galloping horses, and the enormous fried breakfasts without which no … Continue reading →

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Rehabilitating Old Naughty – my article in today’s Guardian

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Lucy

George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty. Britain’s Most Useless  Monarch deserves some credit for presiding over a transformative decade … Lucy Worsley in The Guardian, Monday 29th August Endless Jane Austen film adaptations have given us the idea that … Continue reading →

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The Byronic look: overweight and unattractive, article in The Guardian

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Lucy

The Byronic look: overweight and unattractive.  BBC series on Regency Britain paints an unflattering portrait of ‘self-regarding poser’ Lord Byron. Mark Brown in The Guardian, Saturday 27 August 2011 When a man is noted for his Byronic looks he is … Continue reading →

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