• Air date: 05 Apr '11 3 episodes
      Dan Snow travels around the world to show viewers the dirty truth about some of our most beautiful cities.
  • List of Episodes (3)
    • 1. Medieval London

      05 Apr '11
      Dan Snow discovers how today's London was forged in the filth of the 14th century.
    • 2. Revolutionary Paris

      12 Apr '11
      Just 200 years ago, Paris was famously one of the foulest and smelliest cities in Europe. In this programme historian Dan Snow sniffs out the rotten story of the French revolution.
    • 3. Industrial New York

      19 Apr '11
      Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throes of the industrial revolution. Millions fled persecution, poverty and famine in Europe in the 19th century in search of the Promised Land. When they arrived what they found was even worse than what they'd left behind.