People's Palaces: The Golden Age of Civic Architecture

BBC Four HD

12:15 AM to 1:15 AM

Monday 16 November

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Part one of two. Architectural historian Dr Jonathan Foyle explores some of the most impressive Georgian and Victorian buildings in the north of England, beginning with neo-classical constructions. He visits town and concert halls, libraries, schools and galleries in Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford and Manchester to find out how the regular proportion and symmetry of the style was intended to suggest order in chaotically expanding urban environments