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Secrets from the Asylum

Secrets from the Asylum follows several celebrities as they try to find out why their ancestors had spent time within the asylum. The asylum was seen as a place of stigma and shame. However, asylums hoped to help people be restored to a first-class citizen to be able to live in the real world again. What had actually followed after leaving the asylum was a life-time of shame, guilt, secrets and lies.

Show Info

Network: United Kingdom ITV1 (2014 - 2014)
Schedule: Wednesdays at 21:00 (60 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type: Documentary
Episodes ordered: 2 episodes

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Episode 2

Episode 1x02; Aug 27, 2014

In episode two, Al Murray finds out how ideas about inherited insanity meant his family member Laura Stephens was branded an imbecile and institutionalised from a young age. Lesley Joseph goes on a deeply personal journey to uncover a painful family

Previous Episodes

Episode NameAirdateTrailer
1x02: Episode 2Aug 27, 2014
1x01: Episode 1Aug 20, 2014
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