The Great Smog: London's Four Days of Poison
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The Great Smog: London's Four Days of Poison
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In December nineteen fifty-two, a fog rolled into London and refused to leave. Londoners shrugged — until it started killing them. By the time it lifted four days later, thousands were dead, and almost no one had noticed it happening.
This episode digs into the killer fog: the coal and the cold snap that fed it, the weather trap that sealed it in, the dilute acid hanging in the air, the undertakers who ran out of coffins — and the Clean Air Act it forced into being.
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