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Dishonour and Death

Timewatch · Season 7 · Episode 5
Christopher Andrew presents two stories from the darker and more secret side of British history over the past 150 years.

THE DIARY OF A VERY ENGLISH SPY is an insight, based on a unique document, into the training and instruction given to secret agents at a British spy school during the First World War where elements of present spycraft were first perfected.

'... AND ONE LAW FOR THE POOR': How the 1832 Anatomy Act denied the poor and the destitute the freedom to bury their dead but supplied anatomy schools - previously reliant on stealthy body snatchers - with a regular and legal supply of human cadavers.

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Season
7
Episode
5
Air Date
01/Jun/1988
Air Time
21:00
Runtime
50 min

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Christopher Andrew presents two stories from the darker and more secret side of British history over the past 150 years.

THE DIARY OF A VERY ENGLISH SPY is an insight, based on a unique document, into the training and instruction given to secret agents at a British spy school during the First World War where elements of present spycraft were first perfected.

'... AND ONE LAW FOR THE POOR': How the 1832 Anatomy Act denied the poor and the destitute the freedom to bury their dead but supplied anatomy schools - previously reliant on stealthy body snatchers - with a regular and legal supply of human cadavers.

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