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This is a History Extra production.

What was it like to do your business in a Roman communal toilet?

Why was the devil fought to lurk inside medieval privies?

Did Constipation turn Henry VIII into a tyrant? And how did Victorian suents revolutionise

Britain's cities? did Victorian Sewers revolutionise Britain cities.

I'm David Musgrove and in this four-part series, Toilets Through Time,

I'm heading down the U-Bend in the company of leading historical experts to see what we can learn from the most universal of all experiences, going to the loop.

From the sociable long drops of Rome and Britain and the drafty medieval guardrobes to the plush water closets of

Henry VIII and the cespits of the Victorian slums, we'll revisit lavatories long

past to uncover what we can learn about our ancestors from their toilet habits.

Today's episode finds us in the rather luxurious surroundings of the Royal Tudor water closet.

To tell us more about 16th century alternatives to Lou Rol, grooms of the stool, and Henry the

8th's gut health, I was joined by author and public historian Tracy Borman and as chief curator at the Historic

Royal Palace which includes Hampton Court Palace, Tracy is also a custodian of some pretty

swanky Tudor toilets. I'm delighted today to be joined by Professor

Tracy Borman who is a Tudor expert and perhaps a toilet expert. I'm not sure

Tracy where do you stand on toilets? I'm going to really try Dave not to

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