Lost Stories From Victorian England's Brutal Workhouses

What was it really like in an old Victorian Workhouse? In the first of a two-part documentary, presenter Fern Britton, actor Brian Cox, and more famous faces go on an emotional journey uncovering how their ancestors were driven to the Victorian workhouse by poverty.

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