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Dec 2023
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S4/E5- The Great Stink: A Smelly Chapter...

CHARLIE BAXTER
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📝 Get FREE Episode Worksheet 🧐 Take English Level Test 👄 Improve Your Pronunciation In this episode, Charlie invites Martin on the show to talk about the "Great Stink" in London in 1858, focusing on the city's bad sanitation and how Sir Joseph Bazalgette's new sewage system helped solve the problem. They mix interesting historical details with their own s ... Show More
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