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The Politics Show

The Great Stink: how England came to swim in sewage

The Politics Show

The New Statesman

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The sea is no longer safe to swim in, tomatoes are growing on beaches from seeds in undigested human faeces, and rivers are awash with pig’s blood. When did everything start to go wrong, and who bears the brunt of this grotesque responsibility? 


The Great Stink by Will Dunn is this week’s cover story and you can find it here

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I'm just going to describe where we are.

1:10.0

I'm just going to describe where we are just in case it's useful for the

1:16.1

podcast so we're in a nice big field border by trees There is a dual carriageway running along the far side and then

1:26.8

on the side that we're on there's a brook which looks to be about 10 feet across and it's got two outlets running into it.

1:36.9

One of them has what looks like relatively clean water, that's treated effluent and then about 20 feet from that.

1:47.0

Further up you look there is another outlet that is sort of a small tunnel from which this dark grey-brown

1:58.0

stuff is oozing and has been for the last nine days.

2:05.0

And the smell is quite noticeable,

2:08.0

despite the wind.

2:10.0

There's a strong smell of urine and feces. Hello, I'm Will Dunn, business editor at the New Statesman, and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast.

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