Daily Mail

Victorian Sensations: Electric Dreams, 9pm, BBC4

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THE 1890s were a time of change and, in the first of a fascinatin­g new series, Dr Hannah Fry reveals the part played by technology. Electricit­y gave the Victorians domestic light — which revealed corners (and dust!) that candles couldn’t — and quack medical devices such as ‘electropat­hic belts’.

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