Rich Lives, Poor Lives

9:00 pm - 10:30 pm, Tuesday, August 4 on 5 (5)

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Rob Rinder and Ruth Goodman discover how some of history's most famous events were experienced by the rich and by the poor. They start by exploring the 1840s Victorian era, when railway mania swept Britain. Rob follows the wealthy Victorians who poured their money into the railway boom, while Ruth investigates the lives of those who built and worked on the railways

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