2023 BBC. neurological problems. This is a simple list of well-known people who suffer (or have suffered) from thyroid disorders. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . Picture is last one of Abraham Lincoln while alive. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Two people with the same disease. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Elizabeth placed adverts in the local paper to rent out rooms in her home as she had no other means of earning money. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. DKC Public Relations:extralifeDKC@dkcnews.com, Duncan Singh, Helen Sage, Tristan Quinn, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. "I'm just really, really pleased that the dignity that these men deserved - who were dragged from their villages and commandeered to work for the British Empire - that dignity that they deserve in death can be granted to them," he said. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. No other city has been more buffeted by the cycles of boom and bust and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the place that once proudly saw itself as the second city of empire suffered more than any other when that empire suddenly evaporated. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. Historian Prof David Olusoga, whose TV company produced Unremembered, told BBC Breakfast that apologies were not enough and resources would need to be committed if the commission was serious about . Timed to the series premiere, Riverhead will publish a book authored by Johnson titled EXTRA LIFE: A Short History of Living Longer (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House; on sale May 11, 2021). Read about our approach to external linking. As for black peoples experiences in Britain, he says, there is a hysterical level of anger if you point out that many have lived in some form of slavery or unfreedom. They had terrible problems trying to destroy her thyroid with RAI and thought she could die, she suffered bad thryoid eye disease which might be why I opened up to her, suspecting she might have thyroid problems. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. He is asked, for instance, why he doesnt speak about the Barbary slave trade of the 16th to 18th centuries, in which Europeans were captured and traded by north African pirates. Do you have a relative who was not properly commemorated? EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER to Premiere onMay 11, 2021 on PBS, Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Steven Johnson and David Olusoga Guide Viewers Through Three Centuries of Health Innovations. The house selected is a Georgian-style terrace in what is now called the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. ? indicates questionable. She fully comprehended all I was going through and my feelings of total isolation completely evaporated she really helped me come to terms with my illness and to appreciate how much more awful it can be for others mine was bad but as nothing compared to her terrible suffering also I had more idea of what was wrong because others in the family had suffered with thyroid disorders but as my mother and sister both had thyroid cancer and they were very slow to do any ultrasound on me to check me for it, that greatly added to how bad I felt with the additional and unnecessary worry. A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. Olusoga was born in Lagos in 1970, to a white British mother and a Nigerian father, moving to his mothers home town, Gateshead, at an early age. Shadow justice secretary Mr Lammy told the BBC that while making the documentary in Kenya and Tanzania, he discovered mass graves in which Africans had been "dumped with no commemoration whatsoever". If walls could talk it would be our homes not our grand public buildings that would have all the best stories. Sorry I thought I had checked first hey ho the joys of thyroid. While the series features many leading public health authorities and scientists on the front lines of the current pandemic, EXTRA LIFE examines the bigger picture and sparks a global conversation about how weve learned to save lives. I think the chapter in Black and British about that is 30,000 words, which is as long as some books.. disease, mass transportation, crime and class. Graves' disease is an immune system disorder that results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones (hyperthyroidism). I too live in Liverpool and am finding the programme to be really interesting, especially DO's references to Graves. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. Next door in a scruffy field is where their African comrades are buried - no names, just a general memorial. David Olusoga Why did it take our TV documentary to push the Commonwealth War Graves Commission into righting a wrong they had long known about? Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged just 44 and her former husband Edward left Liverpool for Denmark. Interesting! "The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now," it said. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. Recent projects include A World of Calm, based on the meditation and sleep app from the billion-dollar tech company Calm, Babies, exploring the key developmental years in life, and Emmy Award-nominated The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Nutopia also produced, the much-honored National Geographic series One Strange Rock; the BBC/PBS co-production Civilizations; interactive series The Great American Read; and Emmy Award-winning series How We Got to Now and America: The Story of the US. Upcoming projects include Limitless, with Chris Hemsworth, and Welcome to the Earth (working title) with Will Smith for Disney+, and Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer for PBS. Both survived and that side of the family had the good genes so were lucky. He was proud of being a black Nigerian of Yoruba heritage and was perfectly happy being part of his mothers white working-class geordie tradition. Im a woolyback originally but my scouse accent has dissipated away as I left Birkenhead when I was 18 - no work. Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Bill Gardner is the Executive in Charge for PBS.Funding for EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the New Venture Fund and PBS. The summer afterwards, vans bearing the message Go home or face arrest were driven around London as part of Theresa Mays notorious hostile environment strategy, aiming to make the UK inhospitable for undocumented migrants. Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? If you have been told a version of your history and that is part of your identity, its very difficult when people like me come along and say: There are these chapters [that you need to know about]. People feel wrongly in my view that their history is being undermined by my history. Video, 00:00:36, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. It has now got to the point where some of the statements being made are so easily refutable, so verifiably and unquestionably false, that you have to presume that the people writing them know that. Very interesting. Johnson is the best-selling author of 12 books, including The Ghost Map, one of the seminal books on epidemics. To talk about the past residents of the house, to make judgments about them, to sum up their achievements or discuss their failings, from the upstairs sitting room in which they showed off their wealth and entertained their guests one and a half centuries earlier, felt a little presumptuous and almost transgressive. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. Presenter David revealed residents weren't aware the disease was being transmitted through drinking water. In 2020, protesters in more than 260 British towns and cities took part in BLM protests, thought to be the most widespread anti-racist movement since the abolition of the slave trade. "If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in. 25-year-old Edward Lublin, a ship broker, moved in as one of Elizabeth's tenants, before marrying and moving out with his young bride, Esther - though he stayed on Falkner Street and set up home at number 82. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. Historians who dont get that tend to be the ones who struggle to get anyone to care about their work. I'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. The real stuff of human life love, childhood, vulnerability, intimacy, betrayal, acceptance and pain is revealed behind closed doors and drawn curtains. I watched it and found it very interesting. But Edward got into financial trouble and reached an agreement with his creditors before the Great Depression lead to him taking more financial risks until being declared bankrupt in 1865. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. At a meeting in London, it was said that the governor, F G Guggisberg, said: "The average native of the Gold Coast would not understand or appreciate a headstone. Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. It also cited racist comments such as the governor of a British colony saying in 1923 that: "The average native would not understand or appreciate a headstone. I. There is no official register of historians. Set in the context of todays COVID-19 crisis, this series explores the lessons learned from previous global pandemicsincluding smallpox, cholera, the Spanish flu and othersand reveals how scientists, doctors, self-experimenters and activists launched a public health revolution, saving millions of lives, fundamentally changing how we think about illness and ultimately paving the way for modern medicine. What his more extreme critics fail to understand, he adds, is that he is loyal to history and not a political agent. The commission, which was founded in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission, said the events of a century ago were wrong then and were wrong now. But John died not long after starting his new life on Falkner Street. The governments recent review on racial equality concluded controversially that there was no institutional racism in areas including policing, health and education, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The house, built in 1840, has been home to a cross-section of British society, warts and all. And that must lead you to another assumption, which is that they know that this is not true, but they have decided that these national myths are so important to them and their political projects, or their sense of who they are, that they dont really care about the historical truths behind them. David, who returns to our screens in the BBC series A House Through . Its director general, Claire Horton, said: "We recognise the wrongs of the past and are deeply sorry and will be acting immediately to correct them.". Photograph: Olumedia/The Guardian. Now he can expect more flak, thanks to the new edition of his book Black and British: A Forgotten History. Boris Johnson said he is "deeply troubled" by failures to properly commemorate black and Asian troops who died fighting for the British Empire during World War One. Doing this post was an an achievement with one of my Italian greyhounds deliberately trying to stop me typing, using body blocking, clawing and even sitting on top of the iPad, because he wants my full attention , I imagined seeing Graves' disease on it! Luckily they did manage to get it under control but she clearly continued to suffer with the consequences both emotional and physical. The fact that we have doubled life expectancy may well be the single most important development in modern history., "The revolution in medicine and public health that has taken place over the past three centuries is one of the greatest achievements of all time, said Olusoga. All the best to you both! 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