Victorian Scandals

Episode 1

The Frontiers of Science

A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.

Episode 2

Skittles

The story of Catherine "Skittles" Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.

Episode 3

The Portland Millions

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

Episode 4

A Pitcher of Snakes

59 mins

Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray are attending the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.

Episode 5

Hannah

Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby makes a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick who continues to pose as his servant.

Episode 6

The Fruits of Philosophy

An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.

Episode 7

Beloved

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.