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Pod-prog notes: gate scandals and mapping in the time of cholera

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Jennifer Tracey | 06:00 UK time, Saturday, 25 October 2008

This week's pod looks at

Gate scandals
Nick Baker got in touch with us about what to call the latest scandal, 'The Mendelson, Osborne, Rothschild, Oleg Deripaska saga? Aluminum Gate?'.

We ask long-standing journalist, , why no political scandal worth mentioning has escaped having the suffix 'gate'. Chris began covering politics for before - and has a press bar in the Commons named after him to prove it.

Could John Snow have prevented the 1854 cholera outbreak if it happened today?
The Secretary of the took us on a tour of Broadwick Street and told us the story.

Professor of human geography, , also briefly gave his views on the challenges of getting data for his social research.

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