The Great Killer Smog

Dr Xand van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952, the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes.

Recounts how the people of London, paralysed with fear, managed to guide residents lost in their own streets while others tried to get the injured to nearby hospitals, and how the undertakers worked 24 hours a day.