The Village of Heroes
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It looked like any ordinary roll of cloth, but it brought the dreaded plague to the village of Eyam. First it killed the tailor, then resident after resident succumbed. To stop the spread of the disease to neighbouring towns the people of Eyam agreed to isolate themselves and let the plague run its deadly course. This terrible act of sacrifice is still remembered centuries later - but what does it tell us about how far people will go to save the lives of strangers?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi there, it's Malcolm. |
| 0:11.0 | If you're like me, you're probably staying up to think about the way the world works. |
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| 1:09.6 | At the beginning of September 1665, a role of cloth from London, arrived in a village |
| 1:22.0 | named Eam. |
| 1:23.6 | Eam was a lively mining and farming community, surrounded by the bleak and beautiful hills |
| 1:28.8 | of the English Peak District. |
| 1:30.7 | It was a world away from London, which, with a population of about half a million people, |
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