Engraving, above: "The Prince Regent," George Cruikshank, 1816.  George Augustus Frederick was appointed Prince Regent to his father King George III on February 5th, 1811. He was a heavy drinker and a compulsive gambler.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman (1 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman (2 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman (3 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman (4 of 4)

Hour Two

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 2, Block A: The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain... by Nicola Phillips  (1 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 2, Block B: The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain... by Nicola Phillips  (2 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 2, Block C: The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain... by Nicola Phillips  (3 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 2, Block D: The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain... by Nicola Phillips  (4 of 4)

Hour Three

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel  (1 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel  (2 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel  (3 of 4)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 3, Block D: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel  (4 of 4)

Hour Four

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 4, Block A: On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel  (1 of 2)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 4, Block B: On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel  (2 of 2)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel (1  of 2)

Saturday  8 March   2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel (2  of 2)

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