{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English ","title":"#629 | “Please, Sir, I Want Some More\": The Truth About Victorian Workhouses","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5ecbf011\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1357,"description":"Charles Dickens made the Victorian workhouse famous, but the reality behind Oliver Twist was even worse than fiction.\n \nThis episode tells how workhouses treated Britain’s poorest people, and how pensions and the welfare state finally replaced them.\n \n\nOliver Twist and the image of hunger in workhouses\nEarly poor relief and rising costs during the Industrial Revolution\n1832 Royal Commission and 1834 Act creating national workhouses\nThe harsh idea of less eligibility as a warning\nWho ended up in workhouses: the elderly, sick children, and women\nSmall meals, family separation, and hard work like treadmills\nAndover scandal: starving people and an abusive, drunken master\nCharlie Chaplin's childhood in the workhouse\nReforms pensions: National Insurance and 1948 changes\nOngoing debates about welfare and supporting vulnerable people\nFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/victorian-workhouses","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HIneD2bpN38ZyIYQqvz9OwtMc5c5ep366psJkVe0ZiU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzU3MDEvMTYyMDk3/Mzg5MS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}