Hi, it's Susan. Amazon Prime has recently started showing an original movie for them.

It's called Radioactive and it's this story of Marie Curie.

We covered Marie over two episodes back in 2016.

For those of you that are curious about Marie's real life,

we've taken those two episodes, edited them down, remastered them a bit.

This is a long episode, even by our standards.

So what we've done is broken the episode into chapters.

So there'll be a logical stopping point for you to stop listening and then come back later.

Now on with the show.

Chapter 1

Let's talk about Marie Curie.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1895, the National Trust was founded in Britain.

Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rudkin accidentally discovered X-rays.

Alfred Nobel's will established the Nobel Prize.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake premiered.

volleyball was invented in Massachusetts.

Frederick Douglass died at the age of 77.

Catherine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.

And on July 26th, 1895, Maria Slidovsky and Pierre Curie

brought together by literal magnetism were married.

And here's your 32nd summary with a certain amount of apology.

...