Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKosovo’s house schools
In 1990s Kosovo, a generation of Albanians received their education crammed into thousands of private homes.
When Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb nationali…
3 years, 5 months ago
Europe's horse meat scandal
In 2013, horse meat was discovered in Irish beef burgers. The scandal snowballed and within six weeks horse meat was found in beef products in more t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Miracle on the Hudson
On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York, after geese struck both its engines shortly after take off.
All 155…
3 years, 5 months ago
World’s first tidal power station
The world’s first tidal power station is on the estuary of the River Rance in France.
It was opened in 1966 by President Charles de Gaulle and has be…
3 years, 5 months ago
Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute
A boom in demand for sea cucumbers in Asia in the 1990s set off a confrontation between fishermen and conservationists in the waters off the Galápago…
3 years, 5 months ago
Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line
In September 1956, a telephone cable called TAT-1 was laid under the Atlantic Ocean, making high-quality transatlantic phone calls possible for the f…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dutch North Sea flood
In 1953, a winter storm combined with high tides breached sea defences in the Netherlands, more than 1,800 people drowned.
Ria Geluk, remembers the on…
3 years, 5 months ago
Plastics in oceans
In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles of the east coast of …
3 years, 5 months ago
Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest
In February 2012, Diana Burkot and other members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot protested inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour agai…
3 years, 5 months ago
The man Pinochet wanted dead
After the 1973 military coup in Chile, Miguel Enriquez led resistance against the dictatorship. The secret police were ordered to track him down and …
3 years, 5 months ago