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BBC Four Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen Tonight

Bob The Skutter

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Saving Deckard the work since I'm at home for now. After last weeks show about the mass production of antibiotics, BBC Four tonight are showing a programme and about a doctor in Manchester and his efforts to bring the Spanish Flu to light in 1918 and save as many lives as possible.

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Today, 21:00 on BBC Four

Drama illuminating one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
Set against the background of the Armistice in November 1918 as millions of exhausted soldiers return home from the Great War, the film tells the little-known story of Dr James Niven, Manchester's medical health officer for thirty years, and his heroic efforts to combat a second wave of fatal influenza as it spreads across the city and the UK.
 
No one watched last night then? I recorded it since I was getting an early night, so I'll be watching it some time soon.
 
I was watching David Mitchell on Who do you Think you Are but I might see if I can watch it on iplayer.
 
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