The Embankment: The Victorian Solution That Saved London From Its Own River

In the summer of 1858 the River Thames became so foul that it drove Parliament out of its own building, and panic finally forced London to fix a crisis it had ignored for a century. This is the story of the Great Stink, the cholera that came before it, and the quiet, obsessive engineer named Joseph Bazalgette who buried a solution so vast it still runs beneath the city a hundred and fifty years later. Viewers learn how London nearly drowned in its own waste, how it built its way out, and why the most important thing Bazalgette ever made is the one thing almost nobody can see.