Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing
Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, at an art gallery in San Francisco in October 1955. It marked a turning point in American literature and is credited with starting the "Beat Generation" of Ame...
5 Loka 20188min
The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary
Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union. He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced working under communism. Photo: a sketch of a dress desi...
4 Loka 20188min
The Invention of Artificial Skin
How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal. Chemist Ioannis Yannas was working alongside surgeon John Burke when they first made the breakthrough using a membrane made of collage...
3 Loka 20189min
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
On the 2nd and 3rd of October 1968, students from two neighbouring universities in the centre of São Paulo clashed in a battle which left one dead and many injured. Thomas Pappon talked to two former ...
2 Loka 20189min
Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine
The former West Indies cricketer, Learie Constantine, took the Imperial Hotel in London to court in 1943. It had refused to let him and his family stay because they were black. He won his case. Susan ...
1 Loka 20188min
The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark
In 1993 work began to build Europe's longest road and rail bridge. The Oresund Bridge links Sweden to Denmark connecting them by land for the first time in thousands of years. In an unlikely twist, it...
28 Syys 201811min
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War
The war lasted for eight years. The death toll is estimated at over a million people. It began when Saddam Hussein sent planes and troops into Iran in September 1980. Ahmed Almushatat was a young Ira...
27 Syys 20189min
The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
How a scientific breakthrough led to the invention of the revolutionary cancer vaccine. In the 1980s, it was established that cervical cancer was caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which is usu...
26 Syys 20189min
