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The discharge of raw sewage into rivers, and the financial problems of major water companies, have become serious political and social concerns for the public. British cities have faced similar challenges in the past, most notoriously with the ‘Great Stink' in London in 1858 that led to the construction of Bazalgette's sewer. Consequently, many cities took utilities into public ownership in the late nineteenth century in what is termed ‘gas and water socialism'. Why did this happen, and why were utilities returned to private ownership in the later twentieth century? The lecture will conclude by assessing the success or failure of the current system of regulated private ownership. Should there be a return to public ownership?This lecture was recorded by Martin Daunton on 11th February 2025 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.Professor Martin Daunton is Visiting Gresham Professor of Economic History.He is a British academic and historian. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, between 2004 and 2014. He is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge.He has written two books on the history of taxation in Britain – Trusting Leviathan and Just Taxes, and co-edited with colleagues in Berlin a volume of essays on the political economy of public finance in leading OECD countries since the 1970s. His book The Economic Government of the World, 1933 to 2023 was published by Allen Lane in 2023.The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/water-sewage-crisisGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todayWebsite:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport Us: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todaySupport the show

Ahead of his competitive debut at Premiership heavyweights, Bristol Bears, on loan from Hartpury University RFC, we're delighted to hear from Harry Bazalgette regards all the latest news in the second tier.  The Champ warrior has spent the last five seasons in the division firstly with Cornish Pirates and now with the Gloucestershire based side.  Plus there's the usual preview and review of the Premiership Rugby Cup with Ross & Charlie as more teams target scalps in the competition after Ealing put 50 points on Saracens last weekend.  

In Episode 29 of The Classical Circuit, host Ella Lee talks to Jack Bazalgette, co-founder and Artistic Director of through the noise, and Artistic Director of the Cheltenham Music Festival. Jack talks about the appetite for classical music in intimate venues, and how there is a lot of crossover between the ‘noisenights' demographic and that of conventional classical concerts. We talk about ‘classical music' as an umbrella term, the future of classical music, and how through the noise initially got off the ground. Jack also shares his advice for others starting independent projects. -------------------through the noise:WebsiteInstagramTikTok-------------------Follow The Classical Circuit on InstagramDid you enjoy this episode? If so, ratings and follows help a lot with visibility, if you have a spare moment... *bats eyelashes*No offence taken if not.--------------------Music: François Couperin - Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les MaillotinsPerformed by Daniel Lebhardt--------------------This podcast is also available to listen to via The Violin Channel--------------------The Classical Circuit is made by Ella Lee (producer by trade, pianist at heart). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calling all penny farthing enthusiasts, we need answers! New records have been set, and we want to know more. Alex takes a dive into the Thames this week. Not the modern Thames, oh no, she's bravely gone back to 1858, the year of the Great Stink. What's that got to do with Bexley? The Crossness pumping station, that's what. An important part of Bazalgette's solution, his new improved sewage system, to transport the poop of London out the East. A very functional building then, presumably. Wait, have you met the Victorians? And will our funky theme tune be hitting the charts or clubs any time soon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the first recorded use of cash in Lydia (640BC) via banknotes causing excessive inflation in China (AD806) and a jailed Swedish banker (1600's) we arrive at the UK's first handwritten cheque in 1659. For 300 years nothing else happened in payments until 30 years (starting 1960) focused on making cheque better and 30 years (starting 1990) of putting in pace the building blocks for the digital landscape we now enjoy. In this edition of Payments:Unpacked we consider three key challenges - the future of our payment rails, the future of payment collections and payment fraud. Don't forget to take part in our poll: Are you a Bazalgette, a Chadwick or a Bazelwick? Host: Mike Chambers Get early access to new episodes and full access to the podcast archive. Subscribe before the 31 August 2024 and you'll also receive twelve months subscription to the Payments:Unpacked newsletter (worth £60). To subscribe head over to: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-chambers3/subscribe Sign up for the free Payments:Unpacked newsletter: With thousands of reads each week the Payments:Unpacked newsletter is the best (free) payments read out there – to subscribe head over to: www.northeypoint.substack.com Check out our blog: You'll find the best payments stories in our blog – head over to: www.northeypoint.com Follow on social: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/_mike_chambers_ Twitter: www.twitter.com/_mike_chambers_ You Tube: www.youtube.com/_mike_chambers_ TikTok: @payments_unpacked Email: payments_unpacked@northeypoint.co.uk

The Great Stink of 1858 in London spurred urgent action for improved sanitation infrastructure, ultimately leading to the revolutionary sewer system designed by Joseph Bazalgette. The crisis prompted a shift towards government intervention in public health and infrastructure, setting a precedent for sustainable urban planning worldwide. The legacy of Bazalgette's innovative system endures as a model for addressing urbanization challenges with proactive infrastructure development.

Creativity is the ability to create, produce, or develop original work theories, techniques, thoughts and ways of seeing. You are creative, whether you tap into it or not, and you take your creativity wherever you go, and I think it's often overlooked how valuable creativity is as a transferable skill: the abilities you take from job to job. Here to discuss is BAFTA-nominated television director, Ed Bazalgette, who exemplifies creativity as a transferable skill, having first found success as a musician, then editor, and now director and producer. I first met Ed when he was the lead guitarist for The Vapors, supporting their global hit, Turning Japanese, and I've been a super fan ever since. Please do yourself a favor and check out the power-pop majesty of their full albums, New Clear Days and Magnets. Ed's directing credits include Dr. Who, Poldark, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, and The Witcher.  Ed opened my eyes in so many ways: stay humble there's room for more than one person's creativity on a project creating an environment that fosters sharing creative ideas serves the project leadership, communications and soft skills are essential never stop learning and questioning what's in service of the story combine a let's try it! mentality with discipline the ripple effect of creativity as a transferable skill because the more you put out there, the more everybody working with you takes with them to the next thing they do Ed's currently in post-production on Marie Antoinette for PBS. For more on creativity, listen to Maria Brito discuss how Creativity Rules the World. For more on breaking into directing, listen to Mike Simon discuss Directing Talent.

If you haven't heard of Through The Noise, you will want to go and be a part of one of their Noisenights after this conversation! This week we chat to co-founder Jack Bazalgette about the unusual concerts sweeping through the UK, bringing classical music to clubs and bars with crowdfunded events that have an informal, social element - think standing gigs, drinks and after parties. Jack tells us about the creative process and the work that goes on behind the scenes of the events, the importance of positivity in the classical music world, DJing and his fun hobbies outside music. Find out about upcoming gigs at: https://www.throughthenoise.co.uk/

In the latest episode of the London History Podcast, we delve into the fascinating and crucial chapter of London's history surrounding the Crossness Pumping Station. The mid-19th century was a time when London grappled with the unignorable problem of sanitation, culminating in the notorious event known as the Great Stink of 1858. We begin by exploring the life and career of Joseph Bazalgette, the visionary engineer whose ambitious and innovative sewage system still underpins London's infrastructure today. Bazalgette's monumental undertaking, instigated by the Great Stink, is beautifully narrated, bringing the period's pressing health issues, political pressures, and scientific discoveries to life. The episode then transitions to the architectural marvel of the Crossness Pumping Station, one of Bazalgette's crowning achievements. You'll hear about its intricate design, the advanced-for-its-time technology, and its pivotal role in transforming London's sanitation system. Finally, the episode concludes with the heartbreaking tale of the Princess Alice disaster. This tragic maritime accident underscored the importance of Bazalgette's work and highlighted the stark realities of Victorian London's public health crisis. This episode is an engaging blend of science, history, and biography, showcasing the remarkable individuals and events that shaped London's path towards modernity. Tune in for a comprehensive look at how London transformed from the Great Stink to a city renowned for its effective sewage system. Let us know if there's a particular person, event or place you want to know more about in our podcast: ⁠londonguidedwalks.co.uk/podcast⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Send a voice message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/londonguidedwalks/message

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: First clean water, now clean air, published by finm on April 30, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The excellent report from Rethink Priorities was my main source for this. Many of the substantial points I make are taken from it, though errors are my own. It's worth reading! The authors are Gavriel Kleinwaks, Alastair Fraser-Urquhart, Jam Kraprayoon, and Josh Morrison. Clean water In the mid 19th century, London had a sewage problem. It relied on a patchwork of a few hundred sewers, of brick and wood, and hundreds of thousands of cesspits. The Thames — Londoners' main source of drinking water — was near-opaque with waste. Here is Michael Faraday in an 1855 letter to The Times: Near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds so dense that they were visible at the surface even in water of this kind [.] The smell was very bad, and common to the whole of the water. It was the same as that which now comes up from the gully holes in the streets. The whole river was for the time a real sewer [.] If we neglect this subject, we cannot expect to do so with impunity; nor ought we to be surprised if, ere many years are over, a season give us sad proof of the folly of our carelessness. That “sad proof” arrived more than once. London saw around three outbreaks of cholera, killing upwards of 50,000 people in each outbreak. But early efforts to address the public health crisis were guided by the wrong theory about how diseases spread. On the prevailing view, epidemics were caused by ‘miasma' (bad air) — a kind of poisonous mist from decomposing matter. Parliament commissioned a report on the ‘Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population', which showed a clear link between poverty and disease, and recommended a bunch of excellent and historically significant reforms. But one recommendation backfired because of this scientific misunderstanding: according to the miasma theory, it made sense to remove human waste through wastewater — but that water flowed into the Thames and contaminated it further. But in one of these outbreaks, the physician John Snow has spotted how incidence of cholera clustered around a single water pump in Soho, suggesting that unclean water was the major source of the outbreak. A few years later, the experiments of Louis Pasteur helped foster the germ theory of disease, sharpening the understanding of how and why to treat drinking water for public health. These were well-timed discoveries Because soon things got even worse. Heat exacerbated the smell; and the summer of 1858 was unusually hot. 1858 was the year of London's ‘Great Stink', and the Thames “a Stygian pool, reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors” in Prime Minister Disraeli's words. The problem had become totally unignorable. Parliament turned to Joseph Bazalgette, chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works. Spurred by the Great Stink, he was given licence to oversee the construction of an ambitious plan to rebuild London's sewage system, to his own design. 1,800km of street sewers would feed into 132km of main interconnecting sewers. A network of pumping stations was built, to lift sewage from streets below the high water mark. 18 years later, the result was the kind of modern sewage system we mostly take for granted: a system to collect wastewater and dump it far from where it could contaminate food and drinking water; in this case a dozen miles eastwards to the Thames estuary. "The great sewer that runs beneath Londoners”, wrote Bazalgette's obituarist, “has added some 20 years to their chance of life”. Remarkably, most of the system remains in use. London's sewage system has obviously been expanded, and wastewater treatment is much better. Bazalgette's plan was built to last, and succeeded. As London built ways of expelling wastewater, it also built ways of channelling c...

Jess Gillam chats to conductor Jack Bazalgette, co-founder of ‘through the noise' which aims to innovate and revolutionise live classical music. Their musical journey takes them to Zimbabwe with the music of mbira player Chiwoniso, a forest in Sweden with the Danish String Quartet plus we have the sounds of Barbara Moore, Mahler and Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders. Playlist: Franz Ignaz Beck - Symphony in C major, Op. 1, No 6, I. Allegro [New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Donald Armstrong] Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders – Movement 1 (Promises) Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen - Waltz After Lasse in Lyby [The Danish String Quartet] Debussy - String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, CD 91, L. 85: III. Andantino. Doucement expressif [Ebene Quartet] Barbara Moore - Steam Heat Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in F Minor, K466 [Vladimir Horowitz] Chiwoniso - Zvichapera Mahler - Symphony No.4: I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen [Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado]

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Harry (Baz) Bazalgette discusses becoming a professional Rugby player for the Cornish Pirates. The good memories, friendships that are a different bond and the Never say die attitude he has developed through Rugby. He talks about Rugby being his Focus during his childhood as his family travel the world with the Military and how building good behaviours, habits and practices are the key to success. Jay becomes an art critic and James has a breakdown, of the technological kind.

Colleen Paeff writes picture books from a book-lined office in an old pink house with a view of the Hollywood sign. She is the author of The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2021) and Rainbow Truck, co-authored with Hina Abidi (Chronicle Books, 2023). Find her online at www.colleenpaeff.com and on Twitter and Instagram @ColleenPaeff. Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Paeff writes picture books from a book-lined office in an old pink house with a view of the Hollywood sign. She is the author of The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2021) and Rainbow Truck, co-authored with Hina Abidi (Chronicle Books, 2023). Find her online at www.colleenpaeff.com and on Twitter and Instagram @ColleenPaeff. Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

A few of you have drawn to our attention that Lewin (posh, southern) and I (illiterate, Northern) have strayed far and wide from our original remit of us getting together occasionally to talk utter tosh about everything and anything up to and including rowing.   Like Monsieur l'Ambassadeur in the Ferrero Rocher ads, you have said 'Oh, Northern Oik, Oh Posh Southern Overlord, with your steady diet of world-class guests giving world-class insights and hitherto untold stories about this sport of ours, you are really spoiling us ...'   So.    It's like that, is it?   Well, as the late, great Freddie Mercury once said 'this is what you wanted, this is what you're going to get' - and who are we not to take the same line as a man with a moustache as luxuriant as his voice (with a proven ability to row on both sides of the euphemistic boat).   Yes.   It is going to be that sort of episode.   What sort of episode, Monsieur l'Ambassadeurs, we hear you cry?   Well, let me put it this way:   Lionel Richie; Britney Spears; paparazzi; quality tunes; why do coals go to Newcastle and fascists to Sunderland; why all sports psychologists are basically conning their way into high-paying, high profile gigs; shameful admissions; Verona; poo in the water; heavy metals (not the sort you might think, given our history; faking it until you make it; why pretty women walk with gorillas; fine leather goods; Adele; Mardy Fish; weight loss; misery; karaoke; misery karaoke; betraying your roots live on tape; Bazalgette; social infrastructure; football; and killing the man behind you with your backsplash.   Yes.   It's that good. Probably the best one we've ever done.   Ever.   Bow four. Prepare to die. Stern four are coming in.

Richard  first met Simon Bazalgette when he was chief executive of The Jockey Club, the organisation that owns some of the UK's biggest racecourses including Aintree, Epsom and Cheltenham.  But this isn't really a conversation about horse-racing, because Bazalgette was very early to some of the big themes that we talk about on this podcast. things like media streaming services, data, betting, financial models and digital publishing. His career really took off in the music business, when he was one of the founders of Music Choice Europe, an early digital music platform and was one of the darlings of the first dotcom boom when it floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2000, boasting 14million subscribers and was a forerunner of today's music streaming and digital radio industry. Simon is a non-executive director of the EFL was a senior independent director of the World Athletics Championships in London in 2017 and is a member of the Sports Board of the NSPCC.    And if you don't already get the weekly Unofficial Partner newsletter, you can join thousands of busy sports biz execs who receive it direct to their inbox every Thursday, subscribe via unofficialpartner.com

Author Colleen Paeff shares how primary sources impacted her debut book, The Great Stink, from start to finish.  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Great-Stink/Colleen-Paeff/9781534449299

Im Sommer 1858 war es in London ungewöhnlich heiß. Und damit nicht genug: Es stank zum Himmel. Die alten Lehmrohre in der Kanalisation waren dem Wasserverbrauch der wachsenden Stadt nicht mehr gewachsen. Kniehoch stand die Kloake in den Kellern der Mietshäuser. Cholera und Durchfall grassierten. Doch ein Ingenieur der Londoner Abwasserbehörde hatte einen Plan…

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Sports rescue packages | Gamifying archive content | How to run an organisation remotely. Episode 75 of the Leaders Sport Business Podcast sees former Jockey Club CEO and current board member of the EFL and the Roundhouse Simon Bazalgette (conversation starts at 10:06) and FIFA Chief Commercial Officer Simon Thomas (conversation starts at 28:48) chat down their line to James Emmett and David Cushnan for another episode of At home with Leaders. On the conversational agenda: - The £50 million rescue package for the EFL; - Advice for leaders on how to run an organisation as an abstract concept rather than a location; - The difference between sport and arts in this crisis; - How sports entities are mucking in to help; - WorldCupAtHome and the challenge of carving out, packaging, and gamifying archive content; - Managing FIFA's partners through the crisis; - The implications of UEFA's Euro 2020 postponement. Let us know what you'd like to talk about and who you'd like to hear from on At home with Leaders. @JamesEmmett and @DavidCushnan on Twitter. Stay safe, keep in touch.

Nick Luck was joined in the Luck On Sunday studios by former CEO of the Jockey Club Simon Bazalgette. Reflecting on his time at the helm of The Jockey Club, he talking in details on some of the problems racing currently faces.

2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and will see the building of the first major addition to the system he created to prevent sewage entering the Thames. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is now finally making its way 16 miles beneath the course of the river from Acton to the Thames Estuary, to intercept storm water which would otherwise enter the Thames. The illustrated lecture will examine Bazalgette's achievement and the work involved in building this latest addition to it.A lecture by Dr Stephen Halliday, Writer and Historian 9 October 2019The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/bazalgetteGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

Our second episode focuses on something most of us never think about until something goes wrong: sewers. In specific, we’ll be learning about the construction of London’s Interceptor Sewers, and the 318 million bricks that went into this monument. Sanitation in 1850s Victorian era London was a little different than our standards today. Despite the widespread use of the Victorian equivalent to a modern bathroom, the water closet, indoor plumbing as we know it today was still many years away and the vast majority of waste and sewage was going straight into the River Thames. A cholera outbreak in 1853 that killed roughly 15,000 people, the eventual fermentation of the river in 1858 known as The Great Stink, and a relocation of Parliament within smelling distance would finally lead to the hiring of Sir Joseph William Bazalgette to rectify the problem. Bazalgette’s work would revolutionize sewers and create many of the standards we continue to use toady, including innovations such as egg-shaped sewer pipes and the use of Portland cement, which is still the most commonly used variety of cement today. As with modern engineering projects waste was a huge topic of discussion, but not in the way you’d expect. Unlike our modern concerns of waste and inefficiency contributing to environmental impact, the primary concern was wasting the sewage that could have instead been collected and sold as fertilizer in rural areas. As a true monument to future proofing, the work completed by Bazalgette would last over 100 years, with a project beginning in 2007 to finally expand the capacity of the sewers. Today the biggest risk to sewers in London and across the world are fat bergs, congealed masses of materials such as wet wipes and cooking grease, or as John puts it, “all the stuff we get told not to flush down the toilet but we do anyway because you press flush, they go!” Image Gallery: 1 | 2 Learn more at: MeasuredInMetric.com Edited by: Astronomic Audio Contact us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott on the 19th century writers who shaped the idea of America. 1819 was the year that Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe were born. Whitman's Leaves of Grass, , Melville's novels Moby Dick and The Confidence Man and Julia Ward Howe's passionate opposition to slavery and her advocacy of women's suffrage gave birth to the idea of America. But these authors also have a connection with England - a reading group in Bolton dedicated to Whitman, Melville's visit to Liverpool and Julia Ward Howe's encounters with Browning, the Wordsworths and Oscar Wilde. Katie McGettigan is the author of Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text Peter Riley's most recent book is Whitman, Melville, Crane and the Labours of American Poetry Elaine Showalter is the author of the biography The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe Michael Schmidt is one of the founders of Carcanet Press You can find more information about research and events @Born1819 Listen back to or download the Free Thinking/BBC Arts& Ideas discussion about Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough https://bbc.in/2TLoOfA Producer: Zahid Warley

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The social campaigning, engineering and writing of three Victorians - art critic and philanthropist John Ruskin, poet and assistant to Florence Nightingale Arthur Hugh Clough and the builder of London's sewer system Joseph Bazalgette. Greg Tate, Suzanne Fagence Cooper , Stephen Halliday and Kevin Jackson join Laurence Scott to debate the way these 3 Victorians changed the way we look at the world and shaped our understanding of the Victorians. Producer: Zahid Warley

This week on Radio Free Skaro, it’s time for the nation’s favourite game show* (*not an actual game show) as we dive headlong into another edition of the Miniscope. This week, it’s director Ed Bazalgette, who guided the recent episodes “The Girl Who Died”, “The Woman Who Lived”, and “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” into port. What did the Three Who Rule think of the former guitarist from the 1980s band The Vapors and his work in Doctor Who? Listen and find out! Also, with Doctor Who being produced under a cone of silence as of late, early discussion veers from Doctor Who on Twitch to Amazon reviews to Star Wars to Star Trek and so on. Be warned. Links: – Doctor Who on Twitch Miniscope: – Ed Bazalgette – The Doctor’s Meditation – The Girl Who Died – The Woman Who Lived – The Return of Doctor Mysterio

“Can I come on Skylines and talk about the Victorians?” someone asked me the other week, and who am I to refuse an offer like that?So: this week’s guest is Ned Donovan, the foremost primogeniture nerd writing freelance in London today. He wanted to expound his theory that the great urban engineers of the Victorian era, like Joseph Bazalgette, would have distinctly mixed feelings about modern Britain – delighted that their work has endured, but baffled and a little irritated that it has had to. We do cover Bazalgette’s sewers, built in the aftermath of the Great Stink of 1858. But we ended up having a much broader conversation than I expected, taking in slum clearance, the history of social housing, the decline of noblesse oblige, and why it all means the modern Conservative party is stuffed. All subjects to warm the cockles of my heart.Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman’s cities site, CityMetric. It’s hosted by Jonn Elledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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London is full of it. Poo. Someone worked out that having it slosh about the streets wasn't ideal. And Paul Duncan McGarrity loves him. Learn how one man turned the thames into a giant flush, and what happens when you sink your boat right next to the place where the poo comes out. #worstdeathever For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via FEATURING: Joseph William Bazalgette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette Edwin Chadwick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Chadwick Paul Duncan McGarrity, the UKs foremost Stand up comedian archaeologist, as seen on BBC4s The Big Dig and host of popular podcast Ask an Archaeologist'.  Iszi Lawrence is a comedian and podcaster and contributor to BBC's Making History and presenter of The British Museum Membercast. The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from History. Created by Iszi Lawrence. To help support the show please share it with your friends and on social media (PLEEEEEASE). Also leave us a review on iTunes - this makes us more visible so that other people can find us. For any donations please use the paypal button. Thanks very much! MUSIC All Licenses can be viewed on www.freemusicarchive.org. Theme: Time Trades Live at the WFMU Record Fair - November 24, 2013 by

Please don't think I have an obsession with sewers. In this episode I look at work of Bazalgette, the former Chief Engineer of the London Metropolitan Board of Works, a man who “probably did more good, and saved more lives, than any single Victorian public official”. Bazalgette probably may claim more credit for London's infrastructure than any other individual. He is responsible for bridges, major thoroughfares, and the London sewer system.  Now Chicago's sewer system is incredibly impressive, however Bazalgette's designs in London are lauded in a similar vein to the Panama Canal as one of the seven industrial wonders of the world. I'll look at how the sewer system was desperately needed, why it was so special, and how the system has coped in an age of population density unforeseeable in Bazalgette's time. Thanks to Richard Zak (@rjzak) for the episode suggestion!

Once named "the most influential man in British television," Sir Peter Bazalgette has created some of TV's greatest global hits, including Ready Steady Cook, Changing Rooms, and Ground Force. As Chairman of Endemol UK, he brought us the iconic Big Brother, and persuaded Noel Edmonds to front their new show Deal or No Deal. In this in-depth interview, he gives an end-to-end insider's view of the TV production process, reveals the behind-the-scenes rules to creating globally successful television, and discusses his new role as Chair of Arts Council England.

Matthew Parris hears from Labour peer Lord Adonis why Joseph Bazalgette, the Victorian engineer, has his nomination as a Great Life. Bazalgette, the grandson of a French immigrant who made a fortune lending money to the Hanoverian royal family, is one of the most important of the great Victorian engineers. He not only built a sewage system for London which wiped out cholera in the city, he also built the famous Embankments, laid out several of the main thoroughfares and built or improved many of the city's landmark bridges. Yet he is far less well-known than his flamboyant contemporary Brunel and less celebrated than the creators of the railways. With the help of Joseph Bazalgette's great-great-grandson Sir Peter Bazalgette, the man responsible for Ready Steady Cook and Big Brother and now Chairman of the Arts Council, Matthew pieces together the story of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, "The Sewer King." Producer Christine Hall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Ep 7: Sidney McSprocket is back! And this time he is finding out who and what inspires engineers all over the country. This time he’s at the Transport for London and Crossrail!