38 min
The Radium Girls Remember Remember
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- History
The young women who worked as watch face dial painters during and after WW1 counted themselves lucky to have landed such an opportunity. The pay made them top earners in their communities, the job was seen as glamorous, and they got to work in close contact with the new miracle health element: radium. Except of course that radium is actually radioactive poison. But they didn’t know that. Yet.
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Contact us at - RememberRememberShow@gmail.com
Twitter - @RememberCast
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Find everything about the show over on our Website - https://www.rememberrememberpodcast.com/
Artwork and logos were made by Mary Hanson @MermaidVexa
The young women who worked as watch face dial painters during and after WW1 counted themselves lucky to have landed such an opportunity. The pay made them top earners in their communities, the job was seen as glamorous, and they got to work in close contact with the new miracle health element: radium. Except of course that radium is actually radioactive poison. But they didn’t know that. Yet.
You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast
Contact us at - RememberRememberShow@gmail.com
Twitter - @RememberCast
https://twitter.com/RememberCast
Instagram - @rememberrememberpod
https://www.instagram.com/rememberrememberpod/
Find everything about the show over on our Website - https://www.rememberrememberpodcast.com/
Artwork and logos were made by Mary Hanson @MermaidVexa
38 min