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Bedlam - The Story of a Madhouse
Manage episode 420621751 series 2990772
St Mary’s Bethlem was England’s first psychiatric hospital. This podcast tells the story of the hospital, from its medieval origins to its home in a grand 17th century palace. We follow the lives of its famous inmates: the woman who tried to kill King George III, the first documented case of paranoid schizophrenia and a brilliant Victorian artist who murdered his father.
31 episoder
Manage episode 420621751 series 2990772
St Mary’s Bethlem was England’s first psychiatric hospital. This podcast tells the story of the hospital, from its medieval origins to its home in a grand 17th century palace. We follow the lives of its famous inmates: the woman who tried to kill King George III, the first documented case of paranoid schizophrenia and a brilliant Victorian artist who murdered his father.
31 episoder
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