In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how the Victorian East End changed our attitude to poverty forever.
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Air Date: 2016-10-10
Follow participants as they move into an 1860s tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outhouses. T...
Air Date: 2016-10-17
Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants seeking work. Daily, the slum dwellers...
Air Date: 2016-10-24
Despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London, desperate for work. When curious upper-...
Air Date: 2016-10-31
Enter the 1890s, when mass manufacturing and social reform offer a bit of hope for some of the residents, while other...
Air Date: 2016-11-07
Observe the social changes the slum dwellers face as they move into the 20th century. A few families prosper, but oth...