Wendy Zuckerman
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3,659 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
Wendy Zuckerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That answer is coming up just after the break.
Welcome back.
We just heard that pollution was a major trigger for Ella's asthma.
But until Stephen and the team came along, none of her doctors had even suggested it as a possibility.
So why is that?
Well, some researchers told us that it could be because these days you often can't see the pollution around us.
It's a little out of sight, out of mind.
And that is not how it used to be.
In fact, London used to burn so much coal that the air turned this gross, pukey colour.
When that happened, it was known as a pea super.
So time for a bit of history, and then we'll get back to Rosamund's story.
One of the worst events where smog took over London was known, appropriately, as the Great Smog of London.
If you're a fan of The Crown, you know what I'm talking about.
It happened in December 1952.
Here's a BBC doco about it.
The smog stuck around for five days and ended up killing thousands of people.
But they could do something about it.
And they did.
Events like this kicked governments in the butt to get rid of the smog.
In places like the UK and the US, where similar events happened, they started passing clean air acts to cap how much gunk power plants, homes, and cars could spew into the air.
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