What the Victorians Did For Us - Playing God

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. He visits the home of an eccentric scientist who was reputed to have created life, goes fossil hunting at Lyme Regis, recreates a Victorian seance, and examines devices designed for waking the dead. Plus a look at the first antiseptics and anaesthetics, and the first uses of epidemiology, which saved hundreds from the ravages of cholera.