The Filthy Cities series for BBC 2, explored in depth what really went on in the streets of Medieval London, Revolutionary Paris and 19th Century Industrial New York.
This series was acompanied by scratch and sniff cards that were available in the Radio Times and really helped to bring the images to life! Directed by Jeremy Turner, Louise Hooper and Andy Robbins, all having a very different style to bring these stories to life, but all including the juicy details of the stentch, and grotesquness!! Along with Dan Snow's animated story telling, you really could feel like you were there.
Yes i am sculpting hourse poo, into nuggets
so it looks more like horse poo! Oh the glamour!!
Whilst working along side Alex Ward, as Art Director on these programmes, i really did learn a great deal of history, and have an emense amount of fun building and dressing sets, from filthy streets to kitchens, market stalls to infirmarys, cess pits and toilets, playing with, dressing and squirting blood, looking after the maggots, attending to the pigs head, throwing veg at Ben Jones (one of the actors) whilst in the stocks, helping the dead rat to act on cue, making a vast amout of different types of fake poo! and much much more!
The programmes can still be found on You Tube:
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