Smog Strangles London

When a thick black smog blanketed the sky in December of 1952, Londoners assumed it was just another fog. After all, inversions were common. So no one really cared. Until so many bodies piled up that the morgues had no place to put them. Listen to the story of the perfect storm, and how the press about a brazen serial killer distracted the government and the public from protecting London from the pollution that killed over 4,000 people. Guest: Kate Winkler Dawson, Associate Professor, Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin, and author, "Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City"