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Deadly Experiments

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United Kingdom

How it feels

This documentary examines medical research from the 1950s and 1960s where people were given radioactive substances. It focuses on projects in the United States and the United Kingdom including one study in Coventry.

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What happens

Deadly Experiments was a documentary aired on Channel 4 in 1995 as part of their True Stories series. It was produced by Twenty Twenty Television and featured several US and UK based research projects conducted in the 1950s and 60s which involved radioactive administration to humans, including the Coventry experiment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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