Poison City

Dzerzhinsk a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth Factories producing industrial chemicals and in Soviet times chemical weapons employ a quarter of the 300000 residents in a city where life expectancy has fallen to 4247 years the death rate is 26 times higher than the birth rate and the men are close to impotence Reporter Tim Samuels recorded a series of indepth interviews with the inhabitants of Dzerzhinsk for the Correspondent strand revealing what life is like for the beleaguered populace