Podcast Episodes

Making Jaws

It’s 50 years since the original Jaws film was released in cinemas across America. The movie premiered on 20 June 1975.

Directed by a young Steven Sp…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

On 28 June 1919, in the Palace of Versailles in Paris the signing of the Treaty of Versailles took place.

It was a peace agreement that marked the e…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Civil rights swim-in

On 18 June 1964, black and white protesters jumped into a ‘whites only’ swimming pool at a motel in St Augustine, in Florida.

Photos of the Monson Mot…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Charleston church shooting

On 17 June 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof attended a bible group at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women

After the Second World War, in what was then East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), tens of thousands of women and girls were forcibl…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Schengen Agreement

On 14 June 1985, five politicians met on a boat in the town of Schengen, in Luxembourg, to sign an agreement to get rid of border checks between thei…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

In 1987 Uunied States President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall. In his speech he called on the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise

In 2012, Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his species died.

George, from Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, was a global symbol of…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The woman born in a prisoner of war camp

After the Sino-Indian war in 1962, around 3,000 men, women and children were incarcerated in a disused World War Two prisoner of war camp. Indians of…

9 months ago

World War Two’s Rome escape line

Between September 1943 and June 1944 in World War Two, the Italian capital Rome was occupied by German soldiers.

Italy had surrendered and thousands o…

9 months ago