Episodios

  • 7. The German Equation
    Apr 14 2025

    Find out whether the Corby mums or the council is helped when a new witness speaks out.

    As experts seek to dismiss the families’ claims as 'fantastical', Des Collins and his team face a curveball that threatens to change everything.

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    33 m
  • 6. Us vs Corby Council
    Apr 7 2025

    A young George Taylor faces a harrowing decision that will shape his future.

    While emotional testimonies make clear the scale of suffering caused by the clean up, Des Collins realises he needs to do even more if he is to secure justice for the families.

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    33 m
  • 5. The cluster and the clean-up
    Mar 31 2025

    A second dead-dropped parcel threatens to expose the toxic waste scandal.

    Des Collins embarks upon a nationwide quest to try and prove that the clean up of Corby steelworks is the cause of the cluster of birth defects.

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    27 m
  • 4. No cluster in Corby
    Mar 25 2025

    Des Collins arrives in Corby and comes face-to-face with the case that will change his life.

    With a group of fearless mothers looking for the truth, Des is determined to find out once and for all whether Corby’s orange dust holds all the answers.

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    26 m
  • 3. The Whistleblowers
    Mar 18 2025

    A man with an axe to grind receives a provocative anonymous phone call.

    A dusty dossier ignites deep suspicions about safety violations and a chance conversation prompts a meeting with a newshound on the scent of something big.

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    21 m
  • 2. She’ll never play the piano
    Mar 11 2025

    As toxic waste spreads across Corby, the birth rate of babies with deformities rises.

    Simone is born with three fingers on each hand while, 500 miles away a baby George faces his own challenges.

    Also, at the site of the clean up, someone starts asking questions.

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    20 m
  • 1. There’s something wrong with George
    Mar 4 2025

    Exploring connections as orange dust blankets a town and a baby is born with a hand defect.

    George Taylor investigates what really happened when his hometown of Corby suddenly turned toxic.

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    35 m
  • Introducing... The Toxic Waste Scandal
    Feb 26 2025

    Explore the shocking events that ripped through a steelworks community in Corby, told by the people whose lives were irreversibly changed.

    Hear about anonymous calls, secret packages and poisonous ponds as families try to find answers to why babies in the town were being born with defects.

    In 2010, Corby Borough Council admitted it had made mistakes in the clean-up of the Northamptonshire town's steelworks.

    Presenter: George Taylor. Writer and Producer: Tim Wheeler. Producer: Sarah-Jane Muddiman. Story Consultant: Jack Kibble-White. Additional scripting: Jack Kibble-White, George Taylor and Kirsty Williams. Production Manager: Jenny Thomas. Music and Sound Design: Julian Corrie. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Anna Bartlett. Commissioning Editor: Alistair Miskin.

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    3 m
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