- Title: The Great Plague:
- Date: 6th June 2003
- Summary: The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to the horrors of that summer,other stories have been hidden in the archives of London churches for centuries. Rare documents unearthed in some of the city's oldest places of worship now tell the story of what it was like for the ordinary person,more often than not living in poverty,as the plague swept through London. This factural drama follows the lives of those living in Cock and Key Alley,one of the dank and dismal yards squeezed between Fleet Street and the Thames and brings to life 17th Century London at one of its most frightening moments.
- Description:The story of Britain's worst pandemic,told through the experiences of the families living in the heart of the plague's worst ravages in Cock Alley in the city of London. Human tragedies combined with the latest historical analysis. Part of 17th Century season.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Juniper Communications Ltd.
- Transmission Date:06/06/2003
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s