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Quarantine Genius
How did Shakespeare cope when theatres shut for plague? How were Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot affected by the Spanish flu? How did Frida Kahlo's experience of polio trigger her artistic relationship with disease? Over the course of 8 episodes, 'Quarantine Genius' investigates historical epidemics from the perspective of cultural and scientific figures.
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Recent Episodes
In 2014, Salome Karwah was living in Monrovia, Liberia, when Ebola struck. It killed seven members of her family and infected her, her sister and her fiancé. As soon as Karwah recovered, she volunteered with Doctors Without Borders and went to help...
Published 08/01/20
In May 1991, Queen shot their iconic video for These Are The Days of Our Lives. Six months later, lead frontman Freddie Mercury was dead from AIDS. In this episode we look at one of the worst disease outbreaks in modern history, and how Freddie Mercury...
Published 07/25/20
Contains graphic descriptions of violenceIn 1913, a six year old Frida Kahlo contracted polio disease in Coyoacan, Mexico. The following nine months she spent pent up as a result of the illness would ignite her creativity, and begin an artistic...
Published 07/18/20
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