In the Who’d Have Thought That? About Drought podcast series, Dr Rebecca Pearce explores oral histories of droughts from across the UK and analyses the social impacts of droughts from 1890 to the present day. We hear from memory donors highlighting encounters that we would have never thought about in connection with the impacts of and responses to droughts in natural and spatial spheres.

In this podcast, we hear about battling fires and drought during the drought of 1976.

A transcription is available here: http://aboutdrought.info/whtt-pod1-1976/