Ian Hislop’s Age Of The Do-Gooders Season 1 Episode 3 Sinful Sex and Demon Drink

TV Show: Ian Hislop’s Age Of The Do-Gooders

Aired on: 9:00 PM on December 13th, 2010 – Monday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Name: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink

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The pleasures and perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop’s series about Victorian reformers, campaigners and philanthropists. In attempting to wean Britons off alcohol and away from vice, Ian wonders whether the ‘Do-Gooders’, despite their extraordinary energy and success in transforming every other aspect of 19th century society, had finally bitten off more than they could chew.Ian recovers the hidden histories and remarkable lives of five individuals who gave their all to cure the nation’s moral incontinence. But in doing so, Ian also encounters the occasional skeleton in the closet.Three times Prime Minister William Gladstone spent a lifetime touring the streets of London’s West End trying to rescue prostitutes. He brought many home to his wife, giving them a meal and a bed for the night. So was this pure philanthropy or something of a darker obsession?

Ian Hislop’s Age Of The Do-Gooders Season 1 Episode 3 Sinful Sex and Demon Drink

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Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders Season 1 Episode 2 Suffer The Little Children

TV Show: Ian Hislop’s Age Of The Do-Gooders

Aired on: 9:00 PM on December 6th, 2010 – Monday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Name: Suffer The Little Children

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Ian Hislop continues his celebration of the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable period of social change in British history. Here Ian looks at the do-gooders’ dramatic struggle to give youngsters a proper childhood, sending them to school instead of up chimneys, helping rather than hanging juvenile delinquents and raising the age of consent.Dr Barnardo founded one of the most famous charities of his era. But his methods were decidedly dodgy: he was guilty of misleading advertising, photo-fakery and even child abduction. Yet, we owe our own concept of child protection – that children have rights independently from their parents – to Thomas Barnardo. Indefatigable Bristol spinster Mary Carpenter’s radical approach to helping young offenders was years ahead of its time. But even her patience ran out with some of the errant teenage girls at her pioneering reformatory school.

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