Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Here's a preview of a new show from the Financial Times, Untold: Toxic Legacy.
How can somewhere that looks so beautiful be so contaminated? Laura Hughes receives a tip that horses are dropping dead in Wales. As she investigates, she finds decades of academic studies researching the problem. She learns these aren’t isolated incidents. Something is spreading across the countryside. It’s undetectable to humans, nobody knows it’s there — until they fall ill.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:18.9 | What is happening? |
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| 0:28.1 | and wellness gurus down the right-wing cult spiral in a search for salvation. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. Hi, Pushkin. |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, I'm Laura Hughes. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm dropping into your hot money feed to tell you about an investigative series I've been working on at the Financial Times. |
| 0:56.2 | It's called Untold, Toxic Legacy. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm the public policy reporter here at the FT, |
| 1:02.7 | and a couple of years ago, I got a tip. |
| 1:05.6 | It was about animals dying in whales. |
| 1:09.7 | This wasn't really my beat, but I had to check it out. |
| 1:12.7 | So I got in my car and I drove there. |
| 1:14.9 | I started knocking on doors. |
| 1:18.6 | And what I found was that dangerous levels of lead were leaching out of abandoned lead mines and infecting the land. |
| 1:23.4 | Horses were dying of lead poisoning |
| 1:24.9 | and people were selling eggs contaminated with lead. |
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