BBC - Christopher Lee, This Sceptred Isle 1702 - 1760 The First British Empire CD2 - 56m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. The aftermath of the Fifteen	2:30
2. 1720: The South Sea Bubble	5:04
3. 1721: Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister	2:40
4. Financial reconstruction	0:53
5. Catholics and Dissenters	2:00
6. The Whigs and the Monarchy	2:17
7. Death, Gin and Daniel Defoe	5:09
8. The beginnings of the industrial revolution	2:04
9. Walpole stabilizes the economy, the monarchy and the Whigs	2:47
10. 1725: the Treaty of Vienna	1:00
11. Turnpikes and toll taxes	2:21
12. 1727: the Prince of Wales becomes George II	1:42
13. The diminishing power of the Crown	1:03
14. The character of George II	1:25
15. 1730: Townshend is dismissed	2:26
16. Walpole the political manager	3:04
17. Walpole and the Prince of Wales	1:43
18. 1737: the death of Queen Caroline	2:31
19. 1739: The Convention of Prado	3:51
20. The War of Jenkin's Ear - grog and Rule Brittania	2:24
21. 1741: Walpole's last victory	2:14
22. 1742: Walpole resigns	3:19
23. Political patronage and profit	2:17

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