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S4 Ep16: The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - 1858
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It's 1858, It's Victorian Bradford, and 'Humbug' Billy is about to sell a batch of boiled mint lozenges ten-thousand times stronger than a Fisherman's Friend.
In what Victorian Newsmen recount as a most woeful and melancholy episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - the dreadful and unhappy event that poisoned hundreds of children, baffled The Peelers, and made the Mint Humbug about as popular as a Rose's Coffee Cream.
Should they have stored their arsenic in the sugar bowl? … no, no they probably shouldn't.
Trigger warning! - please be aware that this episode does involve the death of children, along with a frank discussion of the effects of arsenic poisoning and also an unfortunate attempt by the two Phil's to write a musical called, "Sh#ting Blood - the Humbug Billy Story". So, you know… sorry about that.
Title music by Steve Adam
Production by Mike Sandeman - http://www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk/
Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home
©BBC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJOul3n978&t=2569s Presenter Suzannah Lipscomb Produced & Directed by Suzanne Phillips Executive Producer Griff Rhys Jones, Liz Hartford, Sarah Broughton
49 episodes
Manage episode 228927397 series 1401244
It's 1858, It's Victorian Bradford, and 'Humbug' Billy is about to sell a batch of boiled mint lozenges ten-thousand times stronger than a Fisherman's Friend.
In what Victorian Newsmen recount as a most woeful and melancholy episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Bradford Sweet Poisoning - the dreadful and unhappy event that poisoned hundreds of children, baffled The Peelers, and made the Mint Humbug about as popular as a Rose's Coffee Cream.
Should they have stored their arsenic in the sugar bowl? … no, no they probably shouldn't.
Trigger warning! - please be aware that this episode does involve the death of children, along with a frank discussion of the effects of arsenic poisoning and also an unfortunate attempt by the two Phil's to write a musical called, "Sh#ting Blood - the Humbug Billy Story". So, you know… sorry about that.
Title music by Steve Adam
Production by Mike Sandeman - http://www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk/
Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home
©BBC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJOul3n978&t=2569s Presenter Suzannah Lipscomb Produced & Directed by Suzanne Phillips Executive Producer Griff Rhys Jones, Liz Hartford, Sarah Broughton
49 episodes
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