Emma Frank
Director
True Stories (2012)
Season 1
The stories of ten children who grew up and changed the world– tales of inventors, discoverers, pioneers, social reformers, heroes and heroines.
Released March 6, 2012
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.historical-figure
Production Companies: Lambent Productions
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode 1
This first episode looks at at how Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing for ever, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Harriet Tubman freed slaves, Isambard Kingdom Brunel tunnelled through Box Hill to build the Great Western Railway and Mary Anning discovered the first ichthyosaur fossil.
March 6, 2012, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
The second episode looks at Grace Darling's life in a lighthouse and the night she saved nine lives. It shows how Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine against smallpox and follows Rosa Parks as she refuses to give up her seat on a bus and inspires a movement towards justice and equality. It also follows Dr Thomas Barnardo as he sets up a home for street children and watches Elizabeth Fry change the lives of prisoners at Newgate.
March 6, 2012, midnight
BBC Two
60 min/ep
120 min
March 6, 2012
March 6, 2012, midnight
Ended
NR
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