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Episode 4
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Simon Garfield continues his journey through the world of maps. Today, he shows how the plotting of a very special map of London led a Victorian doctor to the source of cholera and enabled him to conquer it.
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
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