Radium GirlsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 1123, Segment 2
Aug 9, 2021 • 17m
In the early twentieth century, radium was used to make luminous watch dials, but the women who painted them were slowly being poisoned by the radium. They fought against powerful companies to save the lives of their friends and to win justice even on their deathbeds.
Guest: Kate Moore, author of “The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women”