Synopsis
In the 80's and 90's Liverpool's gay community was in the grips of the AIDs epidemic.
- Programme: A House Through Time
- Series: 1
- Episode: 4
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2018
- History | Medicine in Britain, c1000-present | c1900-present: Medicine in modern Britain | Approaches to prevention and treatment
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