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⚓️ In 2015, the 'holy grail' of shipwrecks was discovered off the coast of Colombia
🪙 The San José sank more than 300 years ago & treasure on board is worth an estimated $18 billion
🇨🇴 I spoke to former President @JuanManSantos for @bbcworldservice
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🌊 Wait... the Mexican wave wasn't invented in Mexico?
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🇩🇪 As other countries pledge to increase their nuclear capacities, in 2023, Germany shut down its last nuclear power plant
⚛️ There were protests and celebrations
🌱 Both sides claim to be green
📻 10 Fights that made the Green Movement @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ym…
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On 10 July 1976, there was an explosion at a chemical factory near Seveso, northern Italy.
🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4vg5JmU
🇮🇹 50 years ago, there was an explosion at a chemical factory near Seveso, Italy
☁️ A cloud containing a poisonous gas called dioxin spread over the town
⚠️ But residents weren't told of the danger for days
📻 I spoke to a former mayor @bbcworldservice bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct98…
⚾️ In 1981, at a baseball game in California, a cheerleader got fans to stand up + sit down in sections around the stadium
🙌 The cheer spread to other sports, inc the '86 #WorldCup in Mexico
🌊 + became known as the MEXICAN WAVE (soz Krazy George)
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👍 Hopenhagen or Brokenhagen? 👎
🌍 At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders had high hopes of securing a historic climate deal
🤔 But it didn't quite go to plan...
👀 The US + South African negotiators take us behind the scenes
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💡 It's the '90s, & in a tiny office in London, a group of big thinkers is publishing some radical ideas... & about to have a very public falling out!
📗 This is the story of an influential green magazine and the man who created it: Teddy Goldsmith
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⛴️ In 1971, a group of activists set sail to Alaska on a rickety fishing boat in attempt to stop a nuclear weapons test
🌱 Spoiler alert: They failed. But it led to the start of @Greenpeace
📻Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002yb…
📻 Listen to the full series here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001d…
🎙️ Presented by @BBCJustinR and produced by me, @ellielhouse and @AlixPickles
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Why did XR occupy Greenpeace? What made Obama gatecrash a secret meeting at COP? Why did some environmentalists denounce others as ‘eco terrorists’?
New series with the brilliant @BBCJustinR on BBC Sounds now 🌱
🦴 In 1974, geologist Dr Jim Bowler found a skeleton in New South Wales
🇦🇺 'Mungo Man' turned out to be 42,000 years old + the discovery rewrote Australia's history
📻 I spoke to him for the @bbcworldservice :
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🙏 Thanks so much for featuring my doc about Thomas Keneally on @BBCRadio4's Pick of the Week @DrMatthewSweet !
🎙️ Totally agree with your description - he was warm and mischievous - the ideal subject!
📻 Listen to the whole programme here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8l…
🇦🇺 Come join me as I spend a few days with Thomas Keneally, the author of Schindler's List, in Sydney
🏖️ He gives me a tour of his neighbourhood, takes me on a hike + shows me where he writes
📕 I meet the family + we talk about writing into his 90s
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The invention of the mobility scooter🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4cqf5H4
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In 1898, Florence Nightingale invited the Aga Khan around to her London home for tea.
🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4qXyanE
🇹🇼 In 1979, pro-democracy activists clashed with police in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
🗳️ The incident, which happened during Taiwan's martial law period, paved the way for the island's transition to democracy
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Jenni Hicks' teenage daughters Victoria and Sarah were among the 97 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989
37 years on, she's still campaigning for the truth
📻 She spoke to me for the @bbcworldservice bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct74…
Police will 'work with Hillsborough family' to correct record bbc.in/4aK7AcD
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In 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered a coelacanth - a fish that was believed to have been extinct for 65 million years.
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