The Crowning of Everest - Episode 4
The world is waiting for news of success from the British expedition on Mount Everest. James Morris, later to become Jan Morris, is a reporter from The Times newspaper embedded with the team on the mo...
3 Jan 202313min
The Crowning of Everest - Episode 3
In 1953 the 9th British expedition to the top of Mount Everest finally reaches the summit.In the final team was a New Zealander and a Nepalese Sherpa. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay come down the m...
3 Jan 202313min
The Crowning of Everest - Episode 2
Britain has tried and failed to reach the top of Everest for decades. George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared on the mountain in 1924. There were various British expeditions during the 1930s - all...
3 Jan 202313min
The Crowning of Everest - Episode 1
In 1953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned. It's also the year that the British expedition makes an attempt to climb to the summit of the highest mountain in the world. The story of Mount Everest spans the...
3 Jan 202314min
Bad Blood - 6. Newgenics
Are we entering a ‘newgenic’ age - where cutting-edge technologies and the power of personal choice could achieve the kind of genetic perfection that 20th century eugenicists were after? In 2018, a Ch...
24 Dec 202229min
Bad Blood - 5. The Curse of Mendel
A key goal of eugenics in the 20th century was to eliminate genetic defects from a population. Many countries pursued this with state-led programmes of involuntary sterilisation, even murder. We unpic...
23 Dec 202228min
Bad Blood - 4. Rassenhygiene
In the name of eugenics, the Nazi state sterilised hundreds of thousands against their will, murdered disabled children and embarked on a programme of genocide. Why? We like to believe that Nazi atroc...
23 Dec 202228min
Bad Blood - 3. Birth Controlled
Who should be prevented from having children? And who gets to decide? Across 20th century America, there was a battle to control birth - a battle which rages on to this day. In 1907, the state of Indi...
23 Dec 202229min
