How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to sandal-wearing vegetarians and sexual-experimenters.

Documentary

How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to sandal-wearing vegetarians and sexual-experimenters.

Documentary

Created By
First Aired on: Jun 08, 2015
Popularity: 2.3908: 0 votes
Networks: (GB)
Production: Wingspan Productions (GB)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 3 episodes

Season 1

Aired 10 years ago

3 Episodes

Episode 1Episode 1 min
Victoria looks at the earliest bohemian artists in post-revolutionary Paris and explores how its subculture took root in Britain through the eccentricities of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Episode 2Episode 2 min
The journey through bohemian history reaches the early 20th century, when the Bloomsbury Group and others were determined to challenge sexual taboos.
Episode 3Episode 3 min
Victoria runs the postwar gamut from artist, drinker and sexual masochist Francis Bacon to the modern-day, latte-sipping hipster, and asks if we're all bohemians now.