Lee Iordanidis gets a phone call.

“Hi Darlin, how are you? How you feeling?”

She asks the person on the other end of the line.

It’s compassion first, always, and then she gets down to business.

She’s been flown to New Zealand, Germany, England. Not to mention right across Australia. There’s only four individuals with her expertise in this country and she’s in hot demand.

That’s because she’s doing a job most people would run away from. A job that has her brushing up against maggots, rats, flies and human decomposition that seeps its way through carpet, floorboards and down into the cement below.

Nothing ever shocks her. She’s seen it all.

But as Lee will tell you, you never get used to the smell of death - even, as a crime scene cleaner.

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Guest: Lee Iordanidis

You can watch The Cleaner - the TV show based loosely on Lee's line of work - exclusively on BritBox

Host: Gemma Bath

Executive Producer: Gia Moylan

Audio Producer: Rhiannon Mooney

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