Join Jesse and Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista podcast as they wade through the sewage of yore. Waste pits below an ancient cathedral. The River Thames, swollen with turds. Favorite soups. Urine therapy. It’s all here.

Intro/Outro by Chat Pile

Political cartoon slideshow

References:

River Thames documentary, ITV 1991

Magnusson, Roberta J. Water technology in the Middle Ages: cities, monasteries, and waterworks after the Roman Empire. JHU press, 2003.

Craig, T. "Deaths of farmworkers in cow manure ponds put oversight of dairy farms into question." Washington Post (2017).