Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week a scandal in South Africa in the 1990s over skin whitening products. He was the first who drew attention to the

epidemic of what he called ochronosis and he related it to the use of

hydroquinone in skin lightning creams.

Plus, tense times in Nepal as people power overthrew the absolute monarchy 30 years ago.

We've got a fascinating story centered on looted Nazi artworks and the Rolling Stones in the Don.

You were all completely appalled.

This is not how I or Keith or Mick were brought up to think of as British justice.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But first I know the current lockdown experience for many millions of people has been grim

as the world confronts COVID-19,

but the woman we're about to hear endured what you might call extreme lockdown more than half a century ago.

This is from an era of less sophisticated disease containment when tuberculosis was one of the biggest killers in the world.

Because tuberculosis was contagious, hundreds of sanatoriums were built across Europe and North America, not just to treat TB sufferers, but to quarantine them.

Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to Anne Shaw, who spent years in a sanatorium as a child.

It was March and it was cold and windy,

and I saw this huge castle.

I thought that's not a hospital not that I knew what a hospital looked

like and my father carried me in and they said that was it three days it'll only be

for three days Anne and you'll be back home.

And so I agreed, but it turned out to be four years and one day.

Anne Shaw was nine when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to the Craggy Noe sanatorium in South Wales.

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