Station:
BBC TWO (UK)

Status:
New Series

Start:
May/19/2014

Rating:
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The Battle to Beat Polio is a medical documentary. Stephanie Flanders' father Michael best known as one half of world-famous comic duo Flanders & Swann managed to survive after contracting polio as a young man but the effect of the paralysis meant he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Stephanie learns more about about the treatments that he would have endured and finds out about the rivalries that dominated the search for a vaccine for the disease.

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List of episodes

S1E1 - Episode 1

Air Date: 19 May 2014 16:00 (CDT)