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Matters of Time

99% Invisible

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How Do You Wake Up?

In the 18 sixties, factory workers in manchester had to get up early for work. They would rely on a kind of human alarm clock by hiring a knocker upper. A knocker upper, it sounds faintly rude t out of contextbut it wasn't ou was a proper job tidl a knock er ocper. It's now my favorite whimsical jobs that have ever existed in human history.

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