Day Drinkers (Sort of) Helped Stop Cholera in...

In recent years the public has become increasingly aware of the long-term dangers posed by sports injuries -- but at the turn of the 20th century this wasn't the case. Football players didn't wear protective gear, and in 1905 alone more than 15 players died from game-related inju ...  Show more

Now, we know this is going to sound weird, but... it turns out one of the world's most popular pop music contests is also one of the world's best examples of 'soft diplomacy'. So what happens when countries that hate each other get together to determine the year's best song? Spoi ...  Show more

In the 1800s cholera was a mysterious disease killing millions around the world. No-one knew how to stop it till an English doctor, John Snow, began investigating the outbreak of 1854. At a time before germ theory was properly understood, many public health experts thought diseas ...  Show more

Londres, quartier de Lambeth - 1891 Cet épisode nous ramène dans le cœur de la capitale, le long de la Tamise, juste en face de Westminster. C’est un quartier connu de beaucoup d’auditrices et d’auditeurs : il est bordé par l’un des symboles de la ville, le « London Eye »… la plu ...  Show more

Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns.Her charts convinced th ...  Show more

Visiting London post-Brexit vote, Anthony Bourdain finds comfort in classic British cuisine. He eats roast bone marrow at chef Fergus Henderson’s famed restaurant St. John and Scotch eggs at The Princess Victoria with Nigella Lawson. Plus, he meets with revered artist Ralph Stead ...  Show more