Great American Railroad Journeys
Boston to Concord
Season 3 of 20
Michael Portillo visits Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, learning how surgery was first made bearable in 1846 by a miraculous new substance. In Salem, he gets a taste of the witch hunts and the hysteria that gripped the town in the 17th century, before visiting the former home of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott in Concord
Great American Railroad Journeys airs on U&Yesterday +1 at 1:00 AM, Thursday 12 September. (Subtitles.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Alison Kreps
Series Editor
Chris Bairstow
Director