A toxic scandal runs through a small town in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? In the second part of God’s Own Dark Waters, the team turn the lens on those who were supposed to be protecting Bentham – and find out what’s happened to those living in the shadow of the Angus Fire factory.

For more than a year, award-winning ENDS Report journalist Pippa Neill has been unearthing the toxic truth of how a small Yorkshire market town and its residents found themselves at the centre of a chemical scandal.

Last year, an ENDS Report investigation exposed how the market town of Bentham in North Yorkshire is the most known PFAS-polluted place in the UK. The main employer in the town – a firefighting foam producer called Angus Fire – sits at the heart of the pollution. 

In the second episode of this two-part podcast special, she joins the ECO Chamber podcast’s regular presenter James Agyepong-Parsons to turn the lens on those who were supposed to be protecting Bentham – and find out what’s happened to those living in the shadow of the Angus Fire factory.

Listen now to hear from:

• Bentham residents who say they feel ‘trapped’ after finding out communal gardens nearby the factory are contaminated with PFAS
• Lawyers at the law firms Leigh Day and Mischon de Reya, who are acting on behalf of residents in Bentham to explore potential legal action against Angus Fire
• Campaigner George Monbiot who says that the government is failing to effectively regulate 'forever chemicals'

Read more ENDS Report PFAS investigations:

• God's own Dark Waters? How Bentham became the most PFAS polluted place in the UK 
• Poisoned Pastures: Exposing the chemical russian roulette being played on English farmland
• Chemicals in the Cotswolds: Would you build a primary in the toxic hotspot? 
• ENDS briefing: The PFAS files

God’s Own Dark Waters: Exposing a chemical scandal is an ENDS Report production

Series Producer-- Jamie Carpenter 

Series Producer -- Tess Colley

Producer, Presenter and Researcher -- Pippa Neill

Producer, Presenter and Editor - James Agyepong-Parsons

Artwork -- David Robinson

Studio engineer -- Til Owen

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