How the Great London Smog of 1952 killed thousands - Witness History, BBC World Service

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@JoySwiatnik
@JoySwiatnik 3 ай бұрын
My mum was also a midwife during the great smog. She remembers how helpful the blind people were in helping people including the emergency services.
@razor2k911
@razor2k911 6 ай бұрын
Incredible. This was only 72 years ago. It feels like we are light years away from that era.
@supaasandy9807
@supaasandy9807 3 ай бұрын
Believe me. We are not. Not by a long shot. Not by a VERY long shot.
@elementary5521
@elementary5521 Ай бұрын
not really, now the west just makes the third world their dumping ground.
@tonipeterson954
@tonipeterson954 26 күн бұрын
​@@supaasandy9807 ... you're spot on ... look at the mysterious chemical fog in the UK and USA atm
@Trund27
@Trund27 6 ай бұрын
My mother survived this. She was a registered nurse/midwife at the Royal Northern Hospital on Holloway Road. It was horrific. She herself got really sick from the smog.
@asternoor7523
@asternoor7523 2 ай бұрын
Today we are facing this in Lahore, air quality is extremely bad and increasing every year!
@Bookmode
@Bookmode 2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, but our Government just thinking about short term changes, no long term solution is exoected.
@stephenholmgren405
@stephenholmgren405 6 ай бұрын
Here from The Crown, i can't believe thousands died
@dusanpantic792
@dusanpantic792 3 ай бұрын
Good series. I'm watching it now. Greetings from Serbia...
@woodsie5796
@woodsie5796 26 күн бұрын
Sounding familiar lately ...
@michaelk2293
@michaelk2293 Ай бұрын
My father lived in London at the time. I always remember him telling me about it. He told me that when he got home, he used to blow his nose, and it was full of dirty little particles from the smog!
@judithbg5588
@judithbg5588 6 ай бұрын
Yes, I was in grammar school. Walked down the street with my arm stretched in front of me, in case I bumped into someone. Also biked to school, in terror hearing an invisible bus rumbling up the hill behind me!
@mikeyd946
@mikeyd946 6 ай бұрын
I live in Western Canada we are smothered in Wildfire smoke coupled with 37 degree Celsius heat. It is sickening many people. I couldn’t image those folks feeling any different. What a world 😢
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
A man-made world.
@diannshoemaker6419
@diannshoemaker6419 6 ай бұрын
@@mikeyd946 When the fires were at their worst in Canada, upstate (central, actually) New York had months of haze and grey skys. Can only imagine how bad it was, closer to the source.
@samnag8742
@samnag8742 Жыл бұрын
1950s London = 2020s Delhi
@smurugan12
@smurugan12 Жыл бұрын
70 years behind
@universeslap
@universeslap 6 ай бұрын
Or Chengdu or Norilsk...💨😤🤯🤢☠️
@OutragedPufferfish
@OutragedPufferfish 6 ай бұрын
​@@universeslap Norilsk probably looks better than your love life 😋
@universeslap
@universeslap 6 ай бұрын
@@OutragedPufferfish here is prime example of classic russian personality trait😘
@OutragedPufferfish
@OutragedPufferfish 6 ай бұрын
@@universeslap I'm right, just admit it. It's the democratic thing to do.
@vancepomerening4794
@vancepomerening4794 9 ай бұрын
Not as serious but a very similar pollution event happened in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948.
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
Around 1900 - 1920, many such events, and very bad ones, happened throughout the eastern United States, basically anywhere you had a river and burning coal for heat and power.
@misterakt
@misterakt 7 ай бұрын
The Crown did an excellent job portraying this in one of their early episodes. Yeah some of it was fabricated (Churchill's secretary never existed), but it seemed very realistic. If I remember right, they actually reenacted a few scenes from this very newsreel footage for it!
@colinbentley5752
@colinbentley5752 Ай бұрын
I was 10 years old living in Catford at this time..coming home from school,I walked right past my house..couldnt see a hand in front of my face..had to retrace my steps & find my front gate..awful..remember blowing my nose & handkerchief covered in black muck..now live in new zealand..what a difference !!..great choice....
@richardsimms251
@richardsimms251 Жыл бұрын
Smart doctor
@speedracer2841
@speedracer2841 6 ай бұрын
I learned about this in The Crown.
@rosalia4770
@rosalia4770 11 ай бұрын
I’m hear after watching The Crown
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
Hear, hear! 👂
@Nagat80592
@Nagat80592 5 күн бұрын
My homeland also have PM2.5 at pattaya
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
And also: there was no reason this couldn't have been prevented by copying what New York City did earlier in the century: eliminate burning coal!
@philthomas7140
@philthomas7140 Ай бұрын
History is repeating....1952 --> 2025
@cecilefox9136
@cecilefox9136 2 ай бұрын
I once saw " yellow" fog as a young child in N.W.5,early '60's
@unifiedvision999
@unifiedvision999 6 ай бұрын
Thousands!
@diannshoemaker6419
@diannshoemaker6419 7 ай бұрын
Actually, old movies of an even older Victorian Era, showed the frequent, but at the time typical London Fog. At the time it was portrayed as a phenomenon of nature. Now i doubt that. But then, why isn't it mention here, if it wasn't ???
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
The 1900 novel "The Doom of London" did not portray it as a freak of nature, because it wasn't. The east coast American railroads were electrified in the 'teens and 'twenties because of this.
@pierzing.glint1sh76
@pierzing.glint1sh76 2 ай бұрын
It could just be the camera quality but this looks even worse than the annual delhi lahore fog at the moment. Atleast we only had to deal with it once, 70 years ago! The key is to learn your lessons lol
@liberalandfree6267
@liberalandfree6267 2 ай бұрын
I hope things wont reach that bad in Lahore, but the govt should introduce similar to clean air act.
@biddlelove2135
@biddlelove2135 Ай бұрын
I remember it, not one black person died . Check it out.
@1100boy_Chief
@1100boy_Chief 27 күн бұрын
Forreal?
@Nayasmih
@Nayasmih 11 ай бұрын
Pov you just started watching the crown
@jamierudberg4843
@jamierudberg4843 Жыл бұрын
Crown season 1
@marie699
@marie699 25 күн бұрын
Same thing in 2025.
@PaulTuck-o2d
@PaulTuck-o2d 8 ай бұрын
Smokers had their own little chimney exhaling even more noxious pollution..
@lokesh303101
@lokesh303101 7 ай бұрын
Air Pollution means to say Clean Energy Solutions.
@somayyamughal8313
@somayyamughal8313 9 ай бұрын
Wow
@Nikolaceae
@Nikolaceae Ай бұрын
Heute nicht besser
@BBCWorldService
@BBCWorldService Жыл бұрын
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 bbc.in/3VyyriM
@TheFormula313
@TheFormula313 Жыл бұрын
👍
@irigm6132
@irigm6132 5 ай бұрын
I come to know about this from environmental science book.
@BejoyDeb-o1u
@BejoyDeb-o1u Ай бұрын
I am here to know real cause it. It’s my necessary topic of my syllabus ❤ 31 December 2024
@vinodKumar-jk6fn
@vinodKumar-jk6fn Жыл бұрын
I am a fan of BBC but unable to understand English subtitle. Request also hindi subtitle. Please favour us.
@mi24sturm35
@mi24sturm35 6 ай бұрын
Learn English not your shit language
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
This was predicted in the novel "The Doom of London" in 1900 (available free online.) Even then, they knew it was coming: today, we have people pooh-poohing the onsetting climate disaster.
@jacksmith-mu3ee
@jacksmith-mu3ee Жыл бұрын
India pakistan be like : every year China : we defeated smog without even trying
@diogorodrigues747
@diogorodrigues747 11 ай бұрын
"China : we defeated smog without even trying" - yeah, because the CCP basically decided to put their industries in the outskirts of major cities instead of inside them, which has improved the air in the big political and financial centres in the detriment of other areas (it's to be said that the situation isn't good though, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc. are still very polluted cities). Most of China is incredibily polluted and you can prove that by looking at data for air pollution measured via neutral estimates.
@jules263
@jules263 6 ай бұрын
@@jacksmith-mu3ee You can barely spell. I’ve seen your comments. Tell the CCP you require more schooling lol
@Thessalonians22-kg8pf
@Thessalonians22-kg8pf Жыл бұрын
Southport's always sending airplanes from the army base over the northwest when the sky is too blue & within 2 hours its all grey. They are doing it again soon.
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
We had quite a bit of that in Los Angeles. I would see six to eight jets criss-crossing the sky.
@themoderateecowarrior
@themoderateecowarrior 2 ай бұрын
Stop driving every where lazy people. Keep road clear for those who really need it.
@zefa17
@zefa17 6 күн бұрын
Bangkok 2025 where AQI Purple for the first time 🥲🥲🥲
@carlkuss8300
@carlkuss8300 8 ай бұрын
Lucky it's not like this now (although if you believe sadiq you'd think it is) how would you find all the stabbing victims when you can't see through the smog.
@christophercooper6731
@christophercooper6731 6 ай бұрын
Are you a Free Man On the Land? Red-pilled alpha male?
@jjeverson2269
@jjeverson2269 2 ай бұрын
This is India today. At least north India
@NotsoFunnyValentine
@NotsoFunnyValentine 2 ай бұрын
yeah bro...dirty politics is eating my country out. As a person who lives here, though it may not seem that conditions are that bad ( honestly there isn't any crisis or something) but the Government fools these innocent citizens to believe they are on the right track and close to become a "super power" , I mean if you talk about military and space exploration then yes, but apart from that, they are just making a fool out of themselves
@KORA-LOG
@KORA-LOG 4 күн бұрын
happen again recently... The Great Smog of Bangkok 2025
@taka-taktak
@taka-taktak Жыл бұрын
In Delhi there's this kind of pollution without the industrialisation 🥴
@garryferrington811
@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын
Yes, India has embraced smog. It's sad.
@InesElm-dj9tn
@InesElm-dj9tn 6 ай бұрын
SMOGOGO 😂😂😂😂😂
@TheFormula313
@TheFormula313 Жыл бұрын
☪️🇿🇦🎶🇮🇳🌎🎼
@RUSTA5
@RUSTA5 Жыл бұрын
Capitalism 🤷
@joelashdod7712
@joelashdod7712 7 ай бұрын
Capitalism? , was Chernobyl also caused by capitalism?
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 2 ай бұрын
@@joelashdod7712 Stalinist state capitalism. USSR was not a socialist society.
@Joe_Peroni
@Joe_Peroni 8 ай бұрын
You can tell by the comments here that it's now "Londonistan".
@cecilefox9136
@cecilefox9136 7 ай бұрын
😂
@christophercooper6731
@christophercooper6731 6 ай бұрын
Racist idiots feel a compulsion to comment, just like thick taxi drivers feel the need to share their (wrong) opinions.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 2 ай бұрын
London is certainly more diverse than previously and its air is cleaner than in the 1950s before the Clean Air Act. Of course, the UK has exported its highly-polluting industries to the Global South so we can smugly congratulate ourselves.
@C345OFR
@C345OFR 22 күн бұрын
What?! Because people in other countries are typing comments likening their current smogs with our smogs of old? 🤣 Brown people must live rent-free in your head, mate!
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