Filthy Cities

Dan Snow gets down and dirty in the murky histories of London, Paris and New York, exploring their filthy histories from the bottom up.

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Documentary
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First Aired on

Apr 05, 2011

1 seaons till Apr 19, 2011

Popularity: 0.9643
3 votes
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(GB)
Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Industrial New York

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 3 episodes

Season 1

Aired

3 Episodes
  • Episode 1Medieval London60 min

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

  • Episode 2Revolutionary Paris60 min

    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.

  • Episode 3Industrial New York60 min

    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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