In a new six-part series, Jonathan Miller offers his perspective on the development of the nation's health since the end of the Second World War.
Nowadays, health is something we regard as a social right, but it has not always been that way. Medical historians Chris Lawrence and Charles Webster discuss the origins of the nation's health. Miller also talks to John Pemberton, Richard Doll and Jerry Morris who saw at first hand the impact of poverty and malnutrition on health during the 1930s, and whose campaigning paved the way for the creation of a National Health Service.
Rptd 9.30pm
Taking the nation's temperature: page 109