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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Several people were later arrested.
Over the next few years, the Luddites and the government played a cat and mouse game.
There were major battles, with hundreds of Luddites raining onto manufacturing plants where the main goal was to take down the machines.
There were also high profile murders of company owners, like William Horsefall, who had a cannon installed at his mill to prevent Luddite attacks.
Horsefall would be ambushed by four Luddites who were hiding along the road.
But the government also fought back.
Some of the Luddites are caught and made an example out of.
Several executions followed.
And during these years, when the Luddites were squaring off against the machines in government courts, they were also waging a PR battle in the court of public opinion.
The Luddites would create what was essentially propaganda to market their movement.
And many of these messages would include their leader, General Ludd.
This whole time, the British authorities could not find any leads on General Ludd.
But they'd never find him.
Because and this blew my mind when Katrina told me about it.
Ned Ludd, the guy they sang songs about, who the authorities were hellbent on tracking down.
Well, it turns out more than likely he wasn't even real.
She says there was a power in that mythology, an almost prophetic quality to him.
They're chasing a ghost.
Yeah.
Did people perceive the Leaddites as like
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