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Episode Four: The Great Rising
Michael Wood conjures the atmosphere of a midsummer day in 1348 when a ship sailed into a Dorset port carrying the Black Death. The plague spread relentlessly across Britain and went down in history as our country's greatest catastrophe. Michael Wood explores its impact on the ordinary people of the 14th Century.
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