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Television

Lucy Worsley reveals - yet again - that there’s more to the WI than jam and Jerusalem

Plus: the man who did more than anyone else to popularise art and culture in Britain gets his first full TV profile

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

Some revelations, it seems, are capable of being endlessly repeated while still remaining revelations. Think of all the books, articles and TV programmes over the years which have ‘revealed’ that the Victorians weren’t, after all, mad sexual repressives who had a fit of the vapours at the sight of an uncovered table-leg; or that the 1950s were a lot more fun than the drab conformist decade of popular imagination.

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