TV/Radio/Audio

I discussed Derek Jacobi’s Huguenot ancestry for the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?; I examined bodysnatching and anatomy for BBC2’s History Cold Case series; provided background material for BBC1’s Secret History of Our Streets; spoke about Broadmoor Hospital on Channel 5’s programme on that institution; and 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.

BELOW are a selection of interviews and live talks
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Novelist Arthur Morrison and the Old Nichol (‘Jago’) slum http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/audios.aspx?vid=9123

I talk to Sarah Crown of the Guardian here Inconvenient People: Guardian Books podcast

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
http://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)