Aired Wednesday June 9, 1:25am - 2:25amon BBC Four HD

Ian Hislop's Olden Days

Green Imagined Land

Ian looks at the emergence of a rural fantasia in the hugely popular, excessively sentimental works of the Victorian water-colourist Myles Birket Foster. He also discovers how the musician Cecil Sharp kick-started the revival of folk music.

Category
Documentary / History
Original air date
2014-04-23
Cast and crew
  • Ian HislopHost