Kassia St Clair
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380 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Kassia St Clair’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's kind of like British railway time as well as local time.
And so this message that is sent, I can actually read it to you verbatim.
I've got my notes open here.
So it said, a murder has just been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first class ticket to London by the train which left Slough at 7.42 p.m.
He is in the garb of a Quaker with a great coat on, which reaches nearly down to his feet.
He is in the last compartment of first class compartment.
I'm not entirely sure what the kind of letter or word per minute rate was at this time.
But kind of, I think it's something like three letters per minute.
So it's really quite slow.
And this message, you know, it's long winded.
So I think it would have taken a relatively long time to transmit, you know, successfully.
Apparently, you know, I don't know whether how much of this is newspaper sensationism, but apparently it did take them a little while to work out what Quaker meant because it was spelt with a K.
This early model is a little bit unusual.
It doesn't have all the letters.
So now we think of the telegraph system as being kind of, you know, using Morse code and being a system of dots and dashes.
But this was a really early system.
And so the interface actually would have been kind of quite a sort of a grand, almost like a board, like a sort of a game of risk or like a Ouija board.
And it had a sort of series of needles that would point to different letters.
But it didn't have all the letters of the alphabet.
It didn't have a J, it didn't have a Q and it didn't have a Zed.
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