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The Year Without Summer

Episode 7 · 2005-05-27

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Episode overview

Mount Tambora in eastern Indonesia unleashed the biggest volcanic blast ever in April 1815, a cataclysmic event that could have provoked a change in climate around the world. Thousands starved to death, lurid skies inspired the artist Turner and, out of the freakish cold, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born. On opposite sides of the globe, two experts investigate.

50 minutes

Season 24 episodes

1. Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?2005-01-29 2. Murder in Rome2005-03-04 3. Who Killed Stalin?2005-03-11 4. Princess Margaret: A Love Story2005-03-25 5. The Killer Wave of 16072005-04-01 6. Britain's Lost Colosseum2005-05-20 7. The Year Without Summer2005-05-27 8. The Gunpowder Plot2005-11-04 9. Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields2005-11-11 10. Children of the Doomed Voyage2005-11-18 11. Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler2005-11-25