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The Snowstorm Inheritance

on BBC Two England

'Inside the hatch you couldn't see anything. It was like a snowstorm with the dust falling down and covering you. We were breathing it, eating it, drinking it, even playing with it.'
A Southampton docker remembers the weekly task, 25 years ago, of unloading asbestos from South African Cape boats. Today a growing number of those dockers are being struck down with asbestos-related lung diseases. Some of the victims have died before receiving any compensation. Now union officials are calling for a mass X-ray of all the dockers who handled asbestos, in order to discover how many have suffered the snowstorm inheritance.
Executive producer DAVID SEYMOUR Producer MARK BYFORD

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Producer:
David Seymour
Producer:
Mark Byford

BBC Two England

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