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Children Playing in "Snow": How a Town Was Slowly Poisoned

Children Playing in "Snow": How a Town Was Slowly Poisoned

The discovery that children packed asbestos dust into snowball-like clumps and threw them at each other evokes a slow, intimate horror: half an inch of grey-white dust settling on every windowsill within an hour of factory startup. How could a company know about asbestos risks from 1933 onward and let a whole neighborhood breathe that dust for decades?

In this episode, you will hear detailed testimonies from Armley residents, the timeline of Midland Works’ production and the legal records that linked exposure to corporate knowledge…

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