The Radium Girls

Remember Remember

Apr 29, 2024•39 min

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Episode description

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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