Direct Transmission
Direct Transmission
Suzi Claflin
How disease has changed the world.
Episode 5: Sick Chic
Learn how tuberculosis became a fashionable in Romantic era England.
Sep 10, 2020
20 min
Episode 4: Remus Lupin and the Perks of Being a Werewolf
Learn how disease shaped Lupin's character and the Harry Potter series.
Aug 27, 2020
18 min
Episode 3: Scarlet Letters
How the threat of disease made condoms mainstream.
Aug 13, 2020
15 min
Episode 2: The Bloom Boom
Find out how a flower virus fuelled the world's first economic bubble. 
Jul 22, 2020
16 min
Episode 1: War Fever
How typhus helped destroy Napoleon's Grand Armee.
Jul 18, 2020
16 min