From plague doctors to school closures, quack cures to consumptive chic, Apocalypse Then is a bi-weekly radio series that looks at past pandemics to help us make sense of current events.

Hosted by historian Ainsley Hawthorn and journalist Andrew Hawthorn, a married couple who've been isolating together during the COVID outbreak, the show airs every second Monday on CBC Radio and is available to stream online afterward.