Professor Robin Condliffe
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497 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Professor Robin Condliffe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've got gritstone, and you can make grinding wheels from gritstone.
And we had water to power these grinding wheels initially.
And so grinders were people who took the metal knives and made them into sharp knives.
And there was a big outbreak here.
of what's called silicosis.
If you grind up the grit stone, it releases lots of little dust of silica, and it causes havoc in the lungs.
So back in the day when people started seeing grinder's lung, the average age of these men doing it was sort of 30 years.
Very few people were surviving over 30.
So the doctors actually saw this, and they did initial statistical studies showing...
You look at these people, they're all dying this age and government brought in various rules to prevent children doing it to try and improve ventilation.
We've talked about the Clean Air Act in the 50s to get rid of the pea supers and then it's things such as diesel and who knows whether we'll ever tackle wood burners.
In a positive or negative way, which... Well, I think... No, I think in medicine, I'm always struck by... We see a lot of people who are unwell, people who have chronic diseases, and you're always struck by the braveness of people.
People can put up with a lot of diseases.
But it also always makes me think we should...
Never take our health for granted because things can change.
You never appreciate it until it's taken away, do you?
So I think it's important always to be thankful for the blessing of what health you do have every day, really, because you never know what's going to happen.
different factors are there things that you do to take care of your lungs okay well i cycle a lot and then occasionally i'll hold my breath as i go past a a bus belching out uh about diesel so sometimes i will hold my breath because i mean you go through a bunch of diesel and and you do see it and some cities have better buses like uh andy burnham brought in is he brought in electric he likes buses doesn't he andy burnham i think he i think he brought in a lot of electric we don't comment on please guys
Yeah.
Well...
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