Title Filthy Cities: Medieval London - Ep 1 Of 3 / Director: Turner, Jeremy

Published Australia : ABC2, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 min. 6 sec.) ; 357785604 bytes Summary Historian Dan Snow presents an immersive series, going back in time to medieval London, revolutionary Paris and 19th century New York, to bring these cities' stinking histories vividly to life.Do you have to dodge the contents of bedpans or step over rotting corpses on your way to work? Well, you may have had to if you'd lived in London, New York or Paris when they were filthy cities.This series brings to life the murky histories of these great cities, taking the travelogue in a new direction as Dan excavates their dirty pasts in gruesome detail during defining periods in history. Using state-of- the-art CGI, he goes back in time to medieval London, revolutionary Paris and 19th-century New York. What he reveals is that the story of our epic battle against filth through the ages is also the story of the birth of the modern metropolis.He steps into the shoes of professionals such as the medieval muck-raker responsible for clearing tonnes of excrement from London streets; the pig handler helping to clear the New York streets of waste; and the Parisian undertaker, battling to cope with the human cost of a bloody revolution. Dan also meets experts, asking the questions that never make it into the history books, and puts the past to the test by mounting a series of imaginative experiments and thought-provoking stunts to demonstrate the key moments in the fight against filth.Marrying historical accounts with modern science, and combining ambitious deconstructions with CGI, this series builds a deliciously dirty picture of the making of three great capital cities during a pivotal period of the past, and reveals the hidden history behind the modern urban landscape.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A BBC Production Event Broadcast 2014-01-11 at 19:30:00 Notes Classification: PG Subject Epidemics -- Social aspects. Leeches. Middle Ages. Plague. Public health. England -- London. Form Streaming video Author Turner, Jeremy, director Snow, Dan, host McCreadie, Rory, contributor Mortimer, Ian, contributor Oyston, Petra, contributor Peachey, Stuart, contributor Sterry, Jill, contributor

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