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To back to the Frontline Audio Cast, here is the audio cast of Cole's Deadly Dust,

broadcast January 22nd.

The narrator and correspondent is NPR reporter Howard Berkis.

I've moved that bind crack tires since I was a little boy.

Lord, eight or nine years old.

It's just a simple task to most people, but to me this is something that's like a challenge

that you have to get through.

I believe fully if I hadn't really got up and stored moving around because I was so

sick, I would have sat in my chair and died and things like this right here, I'd get

up and it gives me a motivate myself to do it.

Howard Berkis.

During the past six years, I've been in and out of the coalfields of West Virginia, Virginia,

Kentucky and Pennsylvania, meeting sick and dying coal miners.

At first I reported for NPR the resurgence of a deadly coal mining disease, Black lung,

which had been declining for decades.

Then I got a tip two years ago about an outbreak of the most advanced form of Black lung disease,

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