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That Mitchell And Webb Sound - No-One Drowned
Robin Verhagen-Guest
A short sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Sound, the BBC radio comedy, about a safety measure that works perfectly and so gets no credit for the lack of disasters.
It is used as a joke or shorthand for the prevention paradox, where successful safety work looks unnecessary because nothing bad happens.
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