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The Victorian way of death, written & presented by Dan Cruickshank; produced & directed by Jonathan Stamp

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The Victorian way of death, written & presented by Dan Cruickshank; produced & directed by Jonathan Stamp
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eng
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The Victorian way of death
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written & presented by Dan Cruickshank; produced & directed by Jonathan Stamp
Summary
Investigates the circumstances and rituals surrounding death in Victorian Britain and unearths some bizarre tales of sinister bodysnatchers and stolen corpses; of graveyards so full that the limbs of the deceased could be seen protruding from the freshly dug earth; and of suspicious resistance to the supposedly heathen practice of cremation
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