The Black Death: Bring Out Your Dead, 9pm, Ch5

DAN SNOW and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the grim story of the 14th-century pandemic which, once on these shores, was all but unstoppable — it killed three million, some 50 per cent of the population. Getting things started is a run-through of the horrific symptoms of bubonic plague — illustrated on a live ‘patient’ by a special effects make-up artist — boils and all. Concludes tomorrow.