MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies

MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies

Iain transports us to 1858 Bradford – then the world's wool capital, where confectioner William Hardaker ("Humbug Billy") unknowingly sold arsenic-contaminated sweets that resulted in one of Britain's most devastating mass poisonings.

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This episode has been updated to clarify the number of deaths in the Humbug Bill case.

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