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🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:30.0 | ULTOP |
0:44.6 | Welkom everyone to the Most Notorious podcast, I'm Eric Rivenis. |
0:47.7 | I've got another great episode today. |
0:49.7 | As always, I look for book topics that fascinate me and any chance to head across the Atlantic Ocean is a journey I'm always excited to take. |
0:57.8 | So I'm pleased to have as my guest today Kate Winkler Dawson. |
1:01.8 | She's a documentary producer, a news writer and TV news producer. |
1:06.2 | Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News Channel, PBS News Hour and other media outlets. |
1:13.9 | She teaches journalism at the University of Texas Austin. |
1:17.6 | Her book Death in the Air, The True Story of a Serial Killer. |
1:21.9 | The Great London Smog and the Strangling of a City is our subject today. |
1:27.1 | And it's a pretty incredible one. |
1:29.4 | Thanks for joining me today to talk about your book. |
1:32.7 | Thanks Eric, I appreciate you having me. |
1:35.6 | I've got to ask you off the bat, what prompted you to write a book about not only the Great London Smog but also about serial killer John Reginald Christie. |
1:47.4 | Well, it was sort of accident. |
1:49.0 | So I ran across the story. |
1:52.3 | I was surfing the internet. |
1:53.5 | I like to go on Getty and Associated Press and look at the photos of just historic events. |
1:59.6 | And so I saw the really beautiful striking photo of the woman with a scarf across her face during the Great Smog, |
2:08.7 | which turned out to be the cover of my book. |
2:11.8 | And I read a little bit about the smog. |
2:13.6 | It was in the caption. |
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