Filthy Cities

Filthy Cities episode 3 - Industrial New York

Filthy Cities episode 3 – Industrial New York

Filthy Cities episode 3 – 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.     New York was […]

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Filthy Cities episode 2 - Revolutionary Paris

Filthy Cities episode 2 – Revolutionary Paris

Filthy Cities episode 2 – 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.     Stunning CGI reveals the stinking streets where ordinary people slaved in toxic industries and suffered grotesque poverty and disease. Dan

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