Mr Rolls and Mr Royce
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1972 (80 min)
Henry Royce, electrical engineer, had just made his first car. Meanwhile Charles Rolls, a motor dealer, is looking for a reliable model to sell.
Season 1
Horation Bottomley
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1972 (80 min)
The story about the financier, founder of John Bull, fraud and swindler.
E Nesbit
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1972 (75 min)
Story of the author of The Railway Children who lived in a menage a trois with her husband and his mistress.
Conan-Doyle
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1972 (65 min)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, starts behaving like his character.
Baden-Powell
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1972 (65 min)
Is the image of the heroic Boer War General correct? This programmes takes a closer look at the founder of the Scout movement.
The Reluctant Juggler
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1972 (75 min)
A night at an Edwardian music-hall both on stage and backstage, where the performers are organising a strike.
Daisy
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1973 (75 min)
Daisy Warwick, the mistress of Edward VII, and convert to socialism dictates her memoirs to Frank Harris.
Lloyd-George
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1973 (80 min)
The paradox of a politician who was a force for social change, a negotiator and untiring philanderer.