Did The Victorians Ruin The World?

9.30AM, RADIO 4 George Jennings took out a patent for a flush toilet in 1852, but Thomas Crapper really got things going, supplying 30 newfangled lavatories to Sandringham for a right royal flush. Kat and Helen Arney hear how, before Crapper’s plumbing became all the rage, human waste was seen as a useful commodity and not simply something to be flushed away.