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.