What’s on TV tonight: Thursday October 3, 2019 | Times2 – The Times

The science journalist Angela Saini and the reporter and disability campaigner Adam PearsonANDY JACKSON/BBC

Viewing guide, by Joe Clay

Eugenics: Sciences Greatest ScandalBBC Four, 9pmEugenics is the controversial (and discredited) idea that we can improve the quality of the human race by selecting who can and who cant reproduce. For more than a century eugenics led to innocent people the disabled, the poor, the non-white being segregated, even sterilised, in the name of science. It was a formative influence on Adolf Hitler, which ultimately led to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. In the first of an eye-opening two-part documentary, the science journalist Angela Saini and the reporter and disability campaigner Adam Pearson explore the history of eugenics, revealing its ideological roots in liberal and progressive Bloomsbury, central London. Eugenics (meaning well-born) was a word coined in

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What's on TV tonight: Thursday October 3, 2019 | Times2 - The Times