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Filthy Cities

Season 1 2011

  • 2011-04-04T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Dan Snow gets down and dirty in the murky histories of London, Paris and New York, exploring their filthy histories from the bottom up.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-04-04T23:00:00Z

1x01 Medieval London

Series Premiere

1x01 Medieval London

  • 2011-04-04T23:00:00Z1h

Dan Snow discovers how today's London was forged in the filth of the 14th century.

2011-04-11T23:00:00Z

1x02 Revolutionary Paris

1x02 Revolutionary Paris

  • 2011-04-11T23:00:00Z1h

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.

2011-04-18T23:00:00Z

1x03 Industrial New York

1x03 Industrial New York

  • 2011-04-18T23:00:00Z1h

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.

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