Daily Mail

DEADLY DISEASE

The Flu That Killed 50 Million, 9pm, BBC2

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THIS powerful if grim docudrama is based on the personal statements, letters and diaries of those involved in the flu pandemic of 1918 — including doctors, soldiers and politician­s — which claimed more lives than World War I. What lessons can we learn from the tragedy to prevent it from ever happening again?

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