Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-14
Books mentioned on Part Two: William Bailey: The Gwyneth Paltrow of Radiation
Robert and Sofiya finish the story of William Bailey, after a brief interlude to talk about the radium girls. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The radium girls
The Radium Girls is a compelling non-fiction historical book by Kate Moore that details the tragic true story of female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dial watches in the early twentieth century.
Discussed“I’m going to quote from The Radium Girls here, from them and from the specialist medical literature he had studied.”
Where to get it
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Het Achterhuis
Het Achterhuis by Anne Frank, widely known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl, is the poignant and historically vital diary chronicling a Jewish girl's life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Discussed“Man, I have applied what I call the Anne Frank rule, which is that if you start to bring up or reference Anne Frank in anything other than, for example, The Diary of Anne Frank, stop it! Stop it!”
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A drink with Shane MacGowan
Discussed“You've never read the book 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan'? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.”
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