Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4

Airdate: 2026-Mar-11

Episode summary:

Alice meets a 24-year-old cancer patient who has come in for urgent treatment, comparing the high-dose chemotherapy drugs he is given to those available in the apothecary shop set up in Barts in the 1600s. She also looks back at the Great Plague of 1665, asking medical historian Lesley Smith how modern-day medics would have dealt with the patients that arrived at the hospital.

About Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time series:

St Bartholomew's Hospital is one of the most extraordinary institutions in the world: the oldest hospital in Britain still operating on its or...Show more >