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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foil a crime is really kind of a compelling narrative.
Stories like this that almost kind of act like parables and are really kind of easy to grasp
the role of technology and are kind of widely transmitted because they're about murder and they're kind of juicy and salacious, do have a surprising impact on the way that people perceive these new technologies.
No longer is it just like boring train timetables and helping to overcome the kind of idiosyncrasies of local time.
It's kind of playing a role in the capture of a wrongdoer or an evil person.
And that's really compelling.
It's kind of a really sort of good demonstration of the
capacity of this new technology.
So I think it's one of those things where the success of the telegram, I think, was already assured.
There are so many forces pushing it forward, but time is a big one.
The fact that you can relay accurate time around a country, but also around the world, is really key.
Within a few years, particularly after the telegraph has spread globally,
astronomers at Greenwich Mean Time are able to transmit time across the world and kind of standardize time.
you also have big financial interests.
The fact that once you lay a cable between America and the UK, and basically these cables crisscross the world, and suddenly you're able to send financial information across the world relatively quickly.
And that's really exciting for people.
There's lots of practical applications, but there's also a real kind of draw for the Victorian imagination, particularly the kind of colonial British imagination for this kind of network of cables.
And this is very compelling to the Victorian mind, particularly the British mind, because they see themselves as like the nerve centre, the brain, and their influence is spreading out across the world.
They love that.
And you get this kind of standardization of time.
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