Microbes and Men

Overview

Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.

Created by Peter Goodchild

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Frank Gillard

  Narrator (voice)

  6 eps

• 

  Arthur Lowe

  Louis Pasteur

  3 eps

• Antonia Pemberton

  Marie Pasteur

  2 eps

• 

  Charles Kay

  Roux

  2 eps

• 

Themes

• miniseries

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