Lectors
During our work day, we all take a couple of minutes here and there to surf the web and scroll through our social media accounts. We all do it, and there’s nothing wring with that – we can’t focus on one thing for hours straight, and we need those short break every now and then. However, back in the day, people didn’t have internet and social media to keep them entertained during the long work days.
That’s where the lectors enter the picture. Instead of social media and other internet websites, office-goers back in the day had the lectors to keep them entertained. The professional lectors would come equipped with the latest newspaper and perhaps a couple of books, and they would sit in the middle of the office or factory and read aloud news bits, short stories and other such things for the workers – to provide them with an entertaining break from work. We can only imagine how distracting that must have been!