SYMHC Classics: Great London Smog

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This 2014 episode covers why when the Great London Smog descended in December of 1952, nobody initially realized anything unusual was going on. At its largest, it extended 30 kilometers around London, and it killed thousands of people.

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0:00.0	The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.
0:02.4	A very unusual situation.
0:04.3	You saw the stacks of cash in her office.
0:05.9	Chocolate comes from the cacountry, and recently,
0:08.0	Variety's picao fought to have been lost centuries ago
0:10.6	where we discovered in the Amazon.
0:12.1	There used to be no chocolate on Earth like this.
0:14.8	Now some chocolate makers are racing deep into the jungle
0:18.0	to find the next game-changing chocolate, and I'm coming along.
0:21.4	Okay, that was a very large crack it up.
0:26.0	Listen to obsessions while chocolate.
0:28.1	On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:34.9	I'm Moaraka, and I'm back with season three of my podcast,
0:38.8	MoBituary's. I've dug up even more stories about the people and things that fascinate me,
0:44.8	from the fruit that once scandalized.
0:47.5	The shape of the banana made it taboo.
0:50.0	To the band that played second banana to the Beatles.
0:53.5	They were lucky to come in second, and the truth is they only came in second for about two months.
0:57.5	Listen to MoBituary's on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:04.8	I'm Danish Ward's host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast
1:10.4	about the most unlikely art heist of all time.
1:14.6	It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure.
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