Zoe Chase
speaker
252 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Zoe Chase’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This story begins in the early seventies.
Bangladesh was one of the poorest places on earth.
A civil war, a cyclone, a refugee crisis.
It was bad, and it sparked the first live aid style benefit concert ever.
That's George Harrison, one of the Beatles.
Now, inside Bangladesh, there was this other guy working on a plan to help, Abdulmaji Chowdhury.
Chowdhury was a businessman.
He and a couple of his friends were looking around for ways to help their country's desperate economy.
We need employment, we need dollar, and we asked ourselves, what the hell do we want?
Back then, there was hardly any industry there.
The country's main export was this plant.
Jute, the main ingredient in burlap sacks.
Chowdry saw an opportunity making clothes to sell.
To the world.
Relatively low cost, relatively low skill, only one problem.
I did not know how many buttons.
There was a place that did know exactly the country of Korea.
Chowdhury saw Korea as a model for Bangladesh, also devastated by a war and written off, but its economy had rebounded in part because they'd learned to make clothes and sell them to the world.
So Chowdhury went to South Korea and toured a massive garment factory there.
And he saw the jobs he'd been looking for.
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