Michael J. Mosley

looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.

Every time we switch on a light or boil a kettle we rely on power - but most people don't stop to think about the inventions and discoveries that allow us to live the way we do. The Genius of Invention reveals the fascinating chain of events behind inventions that make everyday life possible.

Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable drugs.

A group of 15 volunteers aged between 10 and 59 are transported back to Victorian London as they spend three weeks living and working in a recreation of the notorious Old Nichol slum in Bethnal Green in London's East End. (imdb)