Clips
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Behind the scenes at the Filthy Cities soundtrack recording Duration: 01:34
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Revolutionary Paris Scratch and Sniff - 18th Century Tannery Duration: 03:49
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Revolutionary Paris Scratch and Sniff - Marie Antoinette's perfume Duration: 02:57
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Revolutionary Paris Scratch and Sniff - Pong de Paris Duration: 02:53
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Filthy Cities - Industrial New York Teaser Duration: 01:27 Industrial New York
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Industrial New York - rotten meat sausage anyone? Duration: 01:40 Industrial New York
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Getting down and dirty in the muck of the past
Do you have to dodge the contents of bedpans or step over rotting corpses on your way to work? Well, you may have had to if you’d lived in London, New York or Paris back when they were filthy cities. In this immersive new series Dan Snow brings these cities’ stinking histories vividly to life from the bottom up. Taking the travelogue in a whole new direction - with extraordinary, hands-on demos and stunts and revolutionary CGI - he excavates the murky past in gruesome detail during defining periods in history. You’ll find out how each of these modern capitals was forged in the muck of the past, emerging from ‘filthy cities’ into three of the world’s model metropolises.
Exclusive clip: Find out how the filth of the past was recreated -
Scratch and Sniff: Smelly clip about London sewage
This extra filthy footage evokes the smell of the sewage sludge that would have filled the nostrils of every medieval Londoner.
Watch the scratch and sniff clip from episode 1 -
Follow Dan Snow on Twitter...
Ask your burning Filthy Cities questions and find out what else Dan is up to by following him @thehistoryguy.
Dan Snow is @thehistoryguy on Twitter -
Filthy Cities: My summer in the sewers
"Perhaps my most important realisation was simply the debt that we owe the people who get rid of our waste and ensure we have clean water."
Read and comment on Dan's post on the BBC TV blog -
Hands on History
More filthy history, with events, animations and resources.
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Filthy Cities music
All of the music featured in Filthy Cities was specially composed for the series by Andy Hopkins.
Visit Andy Hopkins' website
