Broadcasting & Media

I discussed Derek Jacobi’s Huguenot ancestry for the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? this autumn.

I examined bodysnatching and anatomy for BBC2’s History Cold Case series;
provided background material for BBC1’s Secret History of Our Streets;
and spoke about Broadmoor Hospital on Channel 5’s programme on that institution.
I appeared on camera and helped out with London local history research for ITV1’s Secrets from the Clinkmini-series, looking at Michelle Collins’ ancestors;
And I was interviewed on Radio 4’s All in the Mind, Radio 3’s Night Waves and the Guardian’s Books Podcast about 19th-century mental health.

BELOW are a selection of interviews and live talks
(to save the following podcasts to your computer, right click the links and select ‘save as’)

I talk to Neil Denny of Little Atoms radio about Inconvenient People here http://ow.ly/NGqPc

The Italian Boy on film: see a short documentary of my debut book here (filmed June 2014)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oe2boQ3nlg

Video of Wellcome Book Prize shortlist talk at Wilton’s Music Hall, Sunday 27 April 2014 vimeo.com/93406035

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum: interview with BBC History (16 MB)

I gave a talk about asylum-keeper Dr Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow to the Whitechapel 1888 Society ow.ly/S8Xa8

The Italian Boy: Museum of London talk, with Q&As, on grave-robbery and murder for dissection (58 MB)


The podcasts below are available at external sites:
The Legacy of Charles Booth, panel talk at the London School of Economics, 25 February 2017
www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3761

Inconvenient People: Guardian Books podcast

Arthur Morrison and the Old Nichol (‘Jago’) Slum http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/audios.aspx?vid=9123