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The Guardian // Lifestyle

TV tonight: Rob Rinder’s fantastic history lesson on the Great Plague

Thursday 10th July 2025, 5:20AM

He teams up with Ruth Goodman to find out the grim details. Plus: Outrageous is an underrated drama about the Mitfords. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5 The barrister and broadcaster Rob Rinder is a captivating history teacher and he is having a ball in this new series, as he learns how wealthy Londoners navigated the plague (even getting into costume for the occasion). Meanwhile, the equally charismatic historian Ruth Goodman finds real cases of poor citizens to explore how differently they experienced it. The two start the story by getting a sense of London life just before the first plague deaths. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...

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