Friday Jan 03, 2025

Episode 2 The Doctor's Knock

Tonight, we travel to a plague ravaged Edinburgh of the 17th century where two men were brave or desperate enough to pull on a cloak and beaked mask and adopt the terrifying role of Plague Doctor and walk amongst the sick and dying to alleviate their suffering. We will look at how difficult life in Edinburgh was this time, and how the Plague Doctors became a powerful symbol for a time of real life horror which wiped out half the population of the city.

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