Rats may make some of us scream, but some scientists are training rats to help save lives. This BBC World Service documentary looks at the complex relationship between human beings and one of our oldest camp followers. New York is a city of skyscrapers. It also has hundreds of miles of sewers, and has been dubbed “Ratropolis.” The BBC’s Mark Lewis talks with New Yorkers who fear rats, and those who write poems about rats. He speaks to rat exterminators, and a journalist who spent a year observing rats in a New York City alley, learning about his own psyche in the process.
Cybele Arnaud