{"id":2066,"date":"2024-08-26T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-the-great-london-smog-of-1952-killed-thousands-witness-history-bbc-world-service\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:20:19","slug":"how-the-great-london-smog-of-1952-killed-thousands-witness-history-bbc-world-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-the-great-london-smog-of-1952-killed-thousands-witness-history-bbc-world-service\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Great London Smog of 1952 killed thousands &#8211; Witness History, BBC World Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90kq35cWZz4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Seventy years ago, thick polluted smog descended on London bringing the city to a standstill and leading to the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>The Great Smog of London lasted for four days. In response the government passed the Clean Air Act of 1956 to reduce the use of smoky fuels such as coal.<\/p>\n<p>Witness History spoke to Dr Brian Commins, who worked for the Medical Research Council&#8217;s Air Pollution Unit set up at St. Bartholomew&#8217;s hospital in London in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Hear more \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0114pw9<\/p>\n<p>Watch more Witness History videos here \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4cfahLaE406BWHwYkYHqB57<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#BBCWorldService #WorldService #london<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90kq35cWZz4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago, thick polluted smog descended on London bringing the city to a standstill and leading to the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM The Great Smog of London lasted for four days. In response the government passed the Clean Air Act of 1956 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2032,2034,2040,15,1361,2039,2035,816,2031,193,725,328,1362,2037,2036,1363,2030,2038,2033],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1950s","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-pollution-unit","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-brian-commins","tag-clean-air-act","tag-discovery","tag-great-london-smog-1952","tag-history","tag-london","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-polluted-air","tag-pollution","tag-radio","tag-smog","tag-toxic-air","tag-witness-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}