Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGodfather of manicures
In November 1975, Vietnamese Navy commander Minh Nguyen, left behind his macho military life and retrained as a manicurist. He migrated from Vietnam …
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How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley
The city of Bengaluru in southern India, previously called Bangalore, is renowned for its huge technology companies and buzzy start-up culture.
But, …
2 years, 11 months ago
The windmill that revolutionised wind power
In 1978, with energy prices rocketing due to the oil crisis, a group of volunteers in Denmark took matters into their own hands and built a wind turb…
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Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'
In 1998, Keiko became the first ever killer whale to be released back into the wild after a life of captivity.
Keiko shot to fame as the star of the 1…
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The man who lived in an airport
In 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, from Iran, flew into Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris intending to transfer onto a flight to London.
But he wasn’t …
2 years, 11 months ago
DDLJ: India’s longest running movie
In 1995, Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was released to critical acclaim.
It premiered at the Maratha Mandir cinema in Mumbai. It's been…
2 years, 11 months ago
Alcatraz: The strangest escape
In June 1962 three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail on the island of Alcatraz.
They achieved this using a homemade raft, papier-mâc…
2 years, 11 months ago
Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story
In 1974, legendary Vietnamese actress Kieu Chinh found herself on a farm in Canada cleaning up after chicken.
She had narrowly escaped the fall of Sa…
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Iraq War: US security guards killed my son
It has been 20 years since the start of the Iraq War.
On 16 September 2007, private security guards employed by the American firm Blackwater opened fi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
It has been 20 years since the start of the Iraq War.
On 13 December 2003 the deposed president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was captured by US forces.
Muw…
2 years, 11 months ago