Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Katrina thinks the OG Luddites get a bad rap.
I like this.
You've now set up a wager for us here.
Can you convince me and also the listener that LED is actually a good word?
Okay, now imagine we're traveling back in time to Katrina's hometown near Manchester, England, early 1800s.
The country is at war with Napoleon's France.
There's widespread poverty, food is hard to come by, life is hard for a lot of people.
And these new odd-looking machines start popping up all over the place.
This is the Industrial Revolution, and it's where the story of the Luddites begins.
Big cities like Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham were booming.
More and more people were flocking to them, and massive factories transformed what these cities looked like.
these factories were producing textiles.
And the workers in these textile factories were getting more and more worried about how this new technology was impacting the way they were.
How much money they could make, and the quality of life they and their families had.
Eventually, it reached a boiling point.
For the most part, the Luddites were an anonymous group, except for their leader, General Ned Ludd.
Only one known image exists of him.
It's a cartoon drawing of him in a dress, standing in front of an angry mob with a factory on fire in the background, and
This was all the authorities had to go on, but he seemed to be everywhere.
About forty five minutes after the riots started, the military arrived.
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