Living in a house that might kill you
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
There are thousands of homes in Britain not fit for purpose with people living in neglected and dangerous conditions - with damp, mould and vermin.
Lewis talks to social housing campaigner, Kwajo Tweneboa, former Levelling Up and Housing Secretary, Simon Clarke to get to the heart of what needs to change.
And playwright James Graham talks to us about the art of bringing to life political events.
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Production: Gabriel Radus
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | Today is going to be a football-free podcast, I promise, except for this. |
| 0:17.3 | Because as someone who will always be a TV reporter in his heart of heart, |
| 0:21.6 | I just love it when stuff like this happens. |
| 0:25.1 | Sky correspondent asked Wales fans on the way out from their game against Iran in Qatar, |
| 0:29.9 | how today's losing match against Iran went for them. |
| 0:33.5 | Guys, sorry, alive on Sky News. Do your reaction to the win? |
| 0:36.1 | We lost. Sorry, reaction to the loss. Apologies. |
| 0:39.6 | Reaction to the loss? |
| 0:43.5 | Uh, shit. |
| 0:44.7 | Apologies for the language. |
| 0:46.5 | It's totally glorious. There but for the grace of God, go I. |
| 0:50.0 | But I am afraid that's your lot for light relief today. |
| 0:53.7 | Because we're going to be covering what is, for my money, one of the biggest scandals in modern British politics. |
| 1:00.7 | It is the tale of a group rarely heard, rarely seen, rarely noticed. |
| 1:05.8 | It is people who live in social housing, council houses and housing associations, which in some cases is quite |
| 1:14.5 | literally killing them. It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:21.4 | The news agents. So what got us thinking about this story? Well, it was a couple of things. |
| 1:26.8 | First of all, you probably heard or saw the story a couple of weeks ago about the tragedy of Aawab Ishak. |
| 1:34.4 | Aouab was a two-year-old boy who died in 2020 in Rochdale. Say a couple of weeks ago, a coroner said that his death was as a result of a breathing condition, |
| 1:46.1 | which itself was almost certainly a result of mould. Mold. A little boy lost his life because of |
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