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St Mary’s Bethlem was England’s first psychiatric hospital. This podcast tells the story of the hospital, from its medieval origins to its home in a grand 17th century palace. We follow the lives of its famous inmates: the woman who tried to kill King George III, the first documented case of paranoid schizophrenia and a brilliant Victorian artist who murdered his father.
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St Mary’s Bethlem was England’s first psychiatric hospital. This podcast tells the story of the hospital, from its medieval origins to its home in a grand 17th century palace. We follow the lives of its famous inmates: the woman who tried to kill King George III, the first documented case of paranoid schizophrenia and a brilliant Victorian artist who murdered his father.
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