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1: Black Death | World's Worst Century

Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to th...

1: Into the Brain | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery begins with the area of the body w...

1: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File

This programme looks at ancient Egypt, Hippocrates, Christianity and Islam.

1: Nerves of Steel | The Courage to Fail

1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged...

1: The Showmen | The Anatomists

Series on the history, psychology and philosophy of anatomy, to coincide with a major exhibition coming to London.

19: 1954: Living Longer | People's Century

Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the Second ...

2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...

2: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breatht...

2: Into the Heart | The Courage to Fail

Crippled children, blue and breathless with congenital heart disease, were sent home to die. Operating on the inside of the heart was...

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...

2: The Bodysnatchers | The Anatomists

Series on the history, psychology and philosophy of anatomy, to coincide with a major exhibition coming to London.

3: A Modern Frankenstien | The Anatomists

Series on the history, psychology and philosophy of anatomy, to coincide with a major exhibition coming to London.

3: Brave New World | Pandemic 2020

From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.

3: Doers Not Thinkers | The Courage to Fail

By the early 1970s, surgeons were riding the crest of a wave. But controversy and uncertainty surrounded one of the commonest ope...

3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She explo...

3: Medicine and Government | History File

Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...

3: Scientists | Icons

Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as th...

3: The Great Famine and the Black Death | Michael Wood's Story of England

Michael Wood's portrait of one village across the whole of English history reaches the 14th century...

4: A Gift of Life | The Courage to Fail

Richard Herrick, a young man dying of kidney disease, is about to make medical history. Surgeons will save his life by transplanting ...

4: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 40...