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This Week's Programme: BBC One

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The North: Full Steam Ahead

At the start of Victoria's reign, the north of England seemed out of control. Enormous industrial cities lacked basic amenities whilst many of their inhabitants lived in slums. David Dimbleby travels to Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, to tell the story of Britain's greatest construction boom. Find out how factories, town halls, sewers, churches, hospitals and dance halls were built in a dramatic attempt to deal with the rapidly expanding urban population.
Begins 9pm, BBC One, Sunday 8th July

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    1. The East: A New Dawn

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    2. The Heart of England: Living It Up

    A journey through the Elizabethan England where domestic comfort and luxury replace Medieval restraint.
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    3. Scotland: Towering Ambitions

    David Dimbleby explores a thousand years of Scottish architecture ending up at the Scottish Parliament Building.  Location list

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    4. The West: Putting On The Style

    Sumptuous Georgian Britain reveals its grace and elegance as David Dimbleby enjoys a tour of western Britain.
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    The great Victorian construction boom attempts to build a way out of appalling social conditions in Britain's cities.
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    6. The South: Dreams of Tomorrow

    A journey through utopian Garden Cities, commuters' dream houses and the hi-tech City of London.
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