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Episode 3

Episode 3 of 4

Living history series with Fi Glover. Six celebrities work in four Victorian workplaces. Their third 24 hours finds them amid the bottle kilns of the Staffordshire potteries.

Six celebrities travel back in time to the relentless graft of Victorian Britain, spending four days in four different 19th-century workplaces. Their third 24 hours finds them facing the gruelling inequality of the factories that were the powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution.

Amidst the bottle kilns of the Staffordshire potteries, it's not just the machinery that's revolutionary! With no break since leaving the 19th-century equivalent of the motorway services - the coaching inn - Alistair McGowan, Ann Widdecombe, Miquita Oliver, Zoe Lucker, Tyger Drew-Honey and Colin Jackson now have kilns to keep alight, clay to prep and pots to make. It's hard work for very little pay and dissent is in the air. Will our apprentice potters, like their forebears, take up the call to arms for better working conditions and pay?

1 hour

Last on

Wed 15 Aug 2018 14:15

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Fi Glover
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Participant Alistair McGowan
Participant Ann Widdecombe
Participant Colin Jackson
Participant Miquita Oliver
Participant Tyger Drew-Honey
Participant Zoe Lucker
Series Producer Mark Ball
Producer James Peters
Director Chris Parkin
Executive Producer Rachel Morgan
Production Company Darlow Smithson Productions

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