Poisons and Pestilence Brett Edwards

Hello! Welcome to The Poisons and Pestilence Podcast! 
 

The first episode covers the pre-history of poison arrows- check out the show notes here:
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wIibQJYobwyhFNC-OhjnLYkOwVizIjuJ?usp=sharing

In Episode 2, we continue our discussion of pre-historic biological warfare
Check out the show notes for this episode here
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wIibQJYobwyhFNC-OhjnLYkOwVizIjuJ?usp=sharing 
 

In Episode 3, we examine the history of biological and chemical warfare from 1000BC to 1AD
 
You can check out sources and show notes at:
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wIibQJYobwyhFNC-OhjnLYkOwVizIjuJ?usp=sharing
 

This episode we're going to be looking at the time- period between roughly 1 AD and 500AD.  As we continue our trundle through the history of chemical and biological weapons and warfare
 
You can check out the show notes here: 
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wIibQJYobwyhFNC-OhjnLYkOwVizIjuJ?usp=sharing

Welcome to the first-ever bonus episode of the poisons and pestilence podcast!  
This episode is the first in a two-part special on large area biological weapon simulant trials, carried out in the UK during the Cold War. In this episode, we focus on work carried out by scientists from Porton Down up until the mid -1960’s- which involved the spread of zinc cadmium sulphide over vast swathes of the UK. In part two of this special, we will take a deeper dive into the ‘Lyme Bay Trials’ which involved the use of bacteria, including E.coli in open-air trials over populated areas during the 1960s and 1970s. In the second show, we will also examine the political fall-out of experiments these experiments, when they started coming to broader public attention in the 1990s.
 
Further resources
Mike Kenner YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/user/experimentsrus
Rob Evans (2000) ‘Gassed’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gassed-Behind-Scenes-Porton-Down/dp/1842320718
Brian Balmer ( 2001) Britain and Biological Warfare https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Britain_and_Biological_Warfare/GGWJDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=brian+balmer&printsec=frontcover
Brian Balmer (2016) Secrecy and Science  https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Secrecy_and_Science/KrreCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Brian+balmer+2016&pg=PT3&printsec=frontcover
Peter Hammond and Gordon Carter ( 2000) From Biological Warfare to Healthcare https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/From_Biological_Warfare_to_Healthcare/UTwGDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=porton+down+history+carter&printsec=frontcover