• 17 minutes 48 seconds
    Rinsed: 10. New Tricks

    Could the water industry be nationalised? Should the water industry be nationalised? And who will bear the ultimate costs for cleaning up our rivers?

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Series Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Researchers: Isaac Fisher and Amy Woods Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Production Manager: Debbie Waddell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Head of Audio of Audio (BBC Studios): Richard Knight Assistant Commissioner: Chris Walsh-Heron Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    8 June 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 15 minutes 32 seconds
    Rinsed: 9. Vultures

    As Thames Water’s finances deteriorate, “vultures” circle.

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    8 June 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 14 minutes 53 seconds
    Rinsed: 8. Sorry?

    New legislation promises to slash the sewage released into rivers, but will it become law?

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    1 June 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 15 minutes 38 seconds
    Rinsed: 7. The Eureka Moment

    The data scientist, the ex-detective and the politician trying to clean up our rivers.

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    1 June 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 43 seconds
    Rinsed: 6. The Lion's Cage

    The view from inside the Environment Agency, the body which enforces environmental standards for water companies in England.

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    25 May 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 15 minutes 18 seconds
    Rinsed: 5. The Camel's Humps

    Rivers work when everything is in balance, but what happens when things are thrown off course?

    Peter Hammond draws on his past as an academic specialising in machine learning to spot a problem everyone else has missed and expose what he believes is a national scandal.

    25 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 30 seconds
    Rinsed: 4. Inkblot

    We can all look the same picture, but what you make of it depends on who you are. Kate Lamble attempts to untangle the financial engineering that underpins parts of the water industry.

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    18 May 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 15 minutes 52 seconds
    Rinsed: 3. Turd Nerds

    The 'Dossier of Despair' that reveals what's happening to some of Britain’s rivers.

    A retired police detective, a former machine learning academic, an ex-water industry insider and their neighbours join forces to dig for data. But will anyone listen to the campaigners calls for change?

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Willimas Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    18 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 14 minutes 38 seconds
    Rinsed: 2. Water Works

    The centuries old battle between public good and private profit that’s still being fought today.

    Kate Lamble holds her nose and plunges into the long history of the water industry and some of the many conflicts that have shaped it.

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    11 May 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 14 minutes 49 seconds
    Rinsed: 1. The Bridge

    After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two retired neighbours decide to take on the water industry and its regulators. The unlikely sleuths begin a ten-year battle to clean up our rivers.

    On the banks of the River Windrush in Oxfordshire, Kate Lamble meets campaigners Ash Smith and Peter Hammond

    Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4

    11 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 48 seconds
    Rinsed: Trailer

    This is the story of a sewage scandal. How a centuries old battle between public good and private profit created an almighty stink. And who pays to clean it up.

    6 May 2026, 2:20 pm
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