PODCAST · history

The Fevered Past

by WatchtowerLabs

Some of history's deadliest killers have never been named. The Fevered Past takes one medical mystery per episode - a plague, the unexplained death of a king, an epidemic that reshaped or annihilated a civilization - and works through it. What the ancient sources say. What modern science has been able to recover. Where the experts agree (or decidedly do not.) and where the honest answer is that we still simply do not know.Some cases are famous. What killed Alexander the Great in Babylon? Some, less so: What was behind the Sweating Sickness of Tudor England, allowing the rise of Henry VIII and the Anglican Church, before suddenly vanishing?Each episode opens with a scene placing you directly into the shoes of someone who lived through the period as an observer, lending a human perspective to events hundreds of years removed from the present - then, we begin our investigation.