Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUna Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
To mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC World Service, we trace the development of the Caribbean Service.
Its beginnings go back to the early 1940s wh…
3 years, 2 months ago
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
In October 2012, skydiver and former Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner was watched live by millions as he ascended into the stratosphere in a he…
3 years, 2 months ago
Soviet fashionista
Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union.
He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced workin…
3 years, 2 months ago
Returning to District Six
When Zahra Nordien was forced out of District Six in Cape Town in 1977, she vowed to one day return.
She was one of the 60,000 people who were forcib…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Shopkeeper Louisa Gould risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner who had escaped from the Nazis during the German occupation of Jersey in World War…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mongolian revolution
In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia after almost 70 years of Soviet backed rule.
University lecturer Ganbold Davaadorj was o…
3 years, 2 months ago
Creating Teletubbies
It’s 1994 and the BBC is looking for a brand-new children’s TV series.
TV producer Anne Wood decides she’s going to make a show aimed at an audience …
3 years, 2 months ago
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
In November 1975, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was controversially sacked by an unelected official in the country's biggest constitu…
3 years, 2 months ago
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
On the 22 July 2005, unarmed Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by anti-terrorism police in London.
He was shot because he was mistak…
3 years, 3 months ago
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Hindu extremists demolished a 16th century mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya in December 1992 prompting months of communal violence across India. …
3 years, 3 months ago