Welcome to the 16th episode of Speaking to the Dead. Where Doug Rooney and Will Stafford read historic texts and put them in conversation with the modern-day. The only rule: the author must be dead!

In this episode, we meet Robert Owen mostly remembered for his New Lanarkshire factory. We see what he has to say about the treatment of the poor in his time, his failure to speak to those in the working class as equals, and what if anything is his lasting legacy.