The Great Stink

<p>June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global&nbsp;center of trade and commerce. But&nbsp;there’s something less&nbsp;glamorous&nbsp;going on in this&nbsp;bustling metropolis:&nbsp;the&nbsp;smell. Every inch of&nbsp;the&nbsp;city smells like rotting, human waste. And this smell is actually&nbsp;killing people. But no one is doing&nbsp;<em>anything</em>&nbsp;about it – until today. How did&nbsp;short-term thinking lead to a deadly problem? And how did an unlikely leader finally get London out of this very literal mess?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you to our guest, Professor Rosemary Ashton, author of <em>One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858.</em></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>