The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern -- Robert Morrison, Paperback Machine co-lead on A&E's Ghost Hunters

co-lead on A&E's Ghost Hunters

and hot spice

Track: 2 - D'argentil: Missa Pro Defunctis II

Cat Anderson does his usual Spanish tinged feature on 'La Virgen'

winter and migration is clearly shown on a map

The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern -- Robert Morrison, Paperback Machine co-lead on A&E's Ghost HuntersThe Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811 1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales the future king George IV succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent surged a society of contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. Capturing the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of artists the Shelleys, Austen, Keats, Byron,