Filthy Cities – Season 1
2011
3 Episodes
Episodes
S01E01
Medieval London
Dan Snow discovers how today's London was forged in the filth of the 14th century.
05 Apr 201160m
S01E02
Revolutionary Paris
Just 200 years ago, Paris was famously one of the foulest and smelliest cities in Europe. In this programme historian Dan Snow sniffs out the rotten story of the French revolution.
12 Apr 201160m
S01E03
Industrial New York
Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throes of the industrial revolution. Millions fled persecution, poverty and famine in Europe in the 19th century in search of the Promised Land. When they arrived what they found was even worse than what they'd left behind.
19 Apr 201160m