Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCivil Rights activist Ida B Wells
In March 2022 a law was passed in the United States making lynching a federal crime - nearly 120 years after the first attempts to introduce legislat…
3 years, 9 months ago
The attack on Lod Airport
In May 1972, Japanese gunmen attacked Lod airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. They were left-wing militants working for a Palestinian organisation. Twenty-s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the world's most influential female artists - in 2014, her painting "Jimson Weed" sold for the highest price ever paid fo…
3 years, 9 months ago
The World Festival of Black Arts
in April 1966 thousands of artists and performers from all over Africa descended on the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for the first World Festival of Bl…
3 years, 9 months ago
The museum of banned Russian art
In 1966, a Russian painter and archaeologist, Igor Savitsky, created a museum in the remote desert of Uzbekistan, where he stored tens of thousands o…
3 years, 9 months ago
The last days of Frida Kahlo
The great Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, died in 1954, at the age of 47. The art critic, Raquel Tibol, lived in Frida's house during the last year of t…
3 years, 9 months ago
Meeting Picasso
In the summer of 1951 a young art historian called John Richardson met one of the greatest painters of the modern era. Richardson was part of Picass…
3 years, 9 months ago
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
In May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a carpenter who'd emigrated to Britain from Antigua, was knifed to death by a gang of white youths in West London. The u…
3 years, 9 months ago
Chasing the Marcos millions
The former president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Senior is thought to have plundered a huge amount of public money during military rule in th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Shanghai at War
In 1937, Japanese forces entered Shanghai - spelling the end of a period when the Chinese city had been a thriving commercial centre governed by inte…
3 years, 9 months ago