Podcast Episodes

Making Turkish Star Wars

When the set fell apart for an ambitious cinematic space opera that was produced on a characteristically small Turkish budget, nationally famed direc…

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'I created the Star Wars toys'

In 1976, American toy designer Jim Swearingen was working at Kenner, a mid-sized company in the American Midwest.

When a script for a new film called …

4 weeks, 2 days ago

The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73

On the 5 September 1986, hijackers took over a Pan-American Airways flight during a stop-over at Karachi Airport in Pakistan.

The armed Palestinian …

1 month ago

Hurricane Luis hits Antigua

On 4 September 1995, Hurricane Luis hit the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Two people were killed and three-quarters of homes were destroyed.

Authorities…

1 month ago

Peace People: The Northern Ireland campaign group born from tragedy

It is 50 years since a peace movement began in Northern Ireland spawned by the killing of three children. There had been seven years of sectarian vio…

1 month ago

Auschwitz: An SS officer’s photo album

In 2007, an abandoned photo album revealed the chilling normality of life at the Nazis’ most notorious concentration camp, Auschwitz.

The 116 black-an…

1 month ago

Uruguay's water referendum

On 31st October 2004, Uruguayans voted to enshrine water as a human right in their constitution, the first country in the world to do so.

The so-call…

1 month ago

Defeating the screwworm

In the 1950s, scientist Edward Knipling began what would become one of the most successful eradication campaigns in history: the fight against the Ne…

1 month, 1 week ago

'I created the duck cake from Bluey'

First published in 1980, the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book brought novelty cakes to the masses.

From the swimming pool fill…

1 month, 1 week ago

Canada's controversial resettlement programme

In 1954, a massive government-run resettlement programme began in Canada.

This saw the relocation of nearly 30,000 people from isolated ‘outport’ fish…

1 month, 1 week ago