1. In the first of three programmes looking at the 1890s, Dr Hannah Fry reflects on the last years of Victoria's reign and traces an era of scientific discovery that still reverberates today. Hannah begins her journey on the Isle of Wight, to find out how electricity symbolised modernity and refined our lives, before considering how such innovations as x-rays, safety bicycles and prototype flying macines transformed society and promised a brighter future.
2. Actor Paul McGann explores the 1890s, a decade when science, art, entertainment and morality collided. He discovers how the works of H G Wells, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde were shaped by fears of moral, social and racial degeneration, and explains how Wilde sought subvert traditional Victorian values.
3. Psychotherapist Philippa Perry goes back to the 1890s to examine how the late-Victorian passion for science co-existed with a deeply held belief in the paranormal. Using a collection of rare and restored Victorian films, she shows how media innovations of the time explores and exploited contemporary ideas about ghosts and the afterlife, and how this new media even anticipated today's networked world.

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