In the first episode of Series Three, this first episode talks about getting old, and especially those people in history who got to be more than a century old. And what about cryonics, the supposed method of freezing people to bring them back to life?

H.G. Wells, and some very strange modern medical mysteries
12:27

Mary Shelley, and sleepy sickness
11:43

John Stewart Mill, and the mysterious pityriasus rosea
13:20