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'Buried' The Banned Toxic Forever Chemicals Ravaging Communities
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Despite being banned around the world in the 1980s, the toxic forever chemical polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, continues to ravage communities across the United Kingdom in a major contamination scandal. Now, the actor Michael sheen has teemed up with two investigative journalists in a new documentary to investigate how this was allowed to happen and uncover the health problems the toxins have caused.
Joining me now to tell us more is Lucy Taylor, an investigative environmental journalist and presenter of the ‘Buried’ podcast on the BBC