Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDenmark’s Inuit children experiment
In 1951, a group of 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with foster parents in Denmark. It was part of a social experiment aimed at im…
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The Nellie massacre
The Nellie massacre on 18 February 1983 was the worst bloodshed in the country since Indian independence in 1947. It is estimated that 3,000 people d…
1 year, 7 months ago
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
What was it in September of 1959 that caused an Austrian scientist to rush out from his lab and buy children's modelling clay?
Austrian born Dr Max Pe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Assassination of Malcolm X
Sixty years ago, on 21st February 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated in Harlem, New York as he was preparing to speak…
1 year, 8 months ago
Murder at the Berlin Wall
On 29 March 1974, Czesław Kukuczka stormed into the Polish embassy in East Berlin, threatening to detonate a bomb unless he was allowed to escape to …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
In December 2005, Evo Morales made history in Bolivia when he became the country’s first indigenous president.
The country is one of the poorest in …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bo: The death of a language
In 2010, one of the oldest languages in the world died after the death of its last remaining speaker.
For 40 years, Boa Senior from the Indian Andaman…
1 year, 8 months ago
The world's longest kiss
In 2013, Guinness World Records deactivated the record for the longest kiss after 15 years, saying it had become too dangerous and some of the rules …
1 year, 8 months ago
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Eva Peron – otherwise known as Evita - became an icon in 1940s Argentina, famous for her passionate speeches and populist rhetoric.
Born into poverty…
1 year, 8 months ago
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
On 10 December 1992, Australia’s Prime Minister, Paul Keating, addressed a crowd in a Sydney suburb called Redfern, to mark the UN’s International Ye…
1 year, 8 months ago