Synopsis
David Olusoga discovers a scandalous poisoning, a reversal of fortune for a Victorian factory girl and a building dynasty that helped create Leeds.
- Programme: A House Through Time
- Series: 4
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2021
- History
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