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Ep 256: Don't Breathe - The Great Smog of London

Podcast: Doomed to Fail
Published: Jul 27, 2026
Duration seconds: 1802
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Summary

In the not-so-distant past, 1952 to be exact, London experienced several days of pea-soup colored, deadly fog. The combination of coal, diesel engines, cold weather, and an anticyclone (which is a new word for us) ended up causing 12,000 deaths. Dig out your kn95 masks and join us for The Great Smog of London.