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

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, Chris Moncrieff, why no political scandal worth mentioning has escaped having the suffix 'gate'. Chris began covering politics for The Press Association before Profumogate - 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 John Snow Society took us on a tour of Broadwick Street and told us the story.

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

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