In this episode, Anna Ploszajski talks to historian Lucy Jane Santos about radium. Lucy's book, Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium, is available now from all good and ethical book stores.

Follow Lucy on Twitter (twitter.com/lucyjanesantos_) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/lucyjanesantos_/) and check out her Museum of Radium here: http://museumofradium.co.uk/. Find out more about what Lucy's up to on her website http://lucyjanesantos.com/.

Thanks to Dave Shephard (www.daveshephard.com) for our cover art, and Alex Lathbridge (www.alexlathbridge.com) for the music mix.

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