Tonight: Season 2021, Episode 37

2021 - 37: Searching for Patient Zero: Britain's AIDS Tragedy

Forty years ago baffled British doctors witnessed the mysterious death of a gay man who regularly visited America. It was the first reported case of AIDS in the UK, and until now he has never been identified. Now Paul Brand traces that first case - along with others who lived, loved and lost to a disease that, worldwide, has now claimed 36 million lives.