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Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics

The movement to breed better people: its dark history and troubling present.

Radio 4,6 episodes

Episodes

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Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,28 mins
The Curse of Mendel
Mendel's insights are taken up by the eugenicists.
19 Dec 2022,30 mins
Rassenhygiene
The Nazis build a eugenic state.
12 Dec 2022,28 mins
Birth Controlled
The battle to control birth in 20th-century USA.
05 Dec 2022,30 mins
You Will Not Replace Us
In Jazz Age USA, the wealthy political elite embrace eugenic ideas with gusto.
28 Nov 2022,28 mins
You've Got Good Genes
Eugenics is born in Victorian Britain and swiftly builds an international following.
21 Nov 2022,28 mins