Aired on: 9:00 PM on December 6th, 2010 – Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Suffer The Little Children
Preview:
Ian Hislop continues his celebration of the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable period of social change in British history. Here Ian looks at the do-gooders’ dramatic struggle to give youngsters a proper childhood, sending them to school instead of up chimneys, helping rather than hanging juvenile delinquents and raising the age of consent.Dr Barnardo founded one of the most famous charities of his era. But his methods were decidedly dodgy: he was guilty of misleading advertising, photo-fakery and even child abduction. Yet, we owe our own concept of child protection – that children have rights independently from their parents – to Thomas Barnardo. Indefatigable Bristol spinster Mary Carpenter’s radical approach to helping young offenders was years ahead of its time. But even her patience ran out with some of the errant teenage girls at her pioneering reformatory school.
Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders Season 1 Episode 2 Suffer The Little Children
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