Michael Sheen joins new series of BBC Radio 4’s award-winning podcast Buried

Following their disturbing investigation right into a poisonous dump at Mobuoy Highway in Northern Eire, investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor return with an explosive new story for BBC Radio 4’s award-winning environmental documentary podcast Buried, on 24 June.

Buried: The Final Witness is the untold account of one of many world’s first-ever whistleblowers on ‘eternally chemical substances’. When the podcast hosts uncover a field of unseen proof and affidavits from a lifeless witness, it sparks a journey into one of many UK’s darkest environmental secrets and techniques. In a shock twist, they uncover that the actor Michael Sheen recorded the witness’s closing testimony.

Throughout 10 episodes, the intrepid trio comply with the path to among the most poisonous websites within the nation – and the world – to uncover the horrifying legacy that PCB chemical substances are having on the atmosphere, our communities and even our meals chain.

The witness’s recorded testimony says he was dying from the chemical substances and extra individuals would comply with. Had been they proper?

Buried: The Final Witness will reveal the outcomes of a one-year investigation involving dossiers of proof, unseen paperwork and unique testing of British soil, grocery store meals and even human blood.

Dan Ashby says: “Most true-crime collection have a sufferer, who all of us really feel empathy for. However on this one, we all know the poison, we all know the culprits, however the scary query is that this: are all of us the victims? I’ve by no means recorded an investigation that’s without delay so common, and so deeply private.”

Lucy Taylor says: “Day by day, generally each hour, now we have obsessed over the life of 1 man. He was sensible, polymathic and eccentric. He’s essentially the most unlikely environmental hero. However who actually was he, and what did he see? Might that one subject, in 1967, change all of our lives? When you see what he noticed, Buried: The Final Witness turns into obligatory listening.”

Michael Sheen says: “It is arduous to get your head round. This story is concerning the first of the eternally chemical substances. And there are such a lot of of them since then. We would like individuals to know what they’re doing proper now. There have been moments on this story when just a little voice inside my head was screaming.”

Buried: The Final Witness is out there as a field set on BBC Sounds and broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4 from 24 June.

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