The history of the Volkswagen Beetle

50 min•7 mars 2020

How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2, plus the fight to ban leaded petrol, psychiatry as punishment in the USSR, striking South Asian women in 1970s Britain and 'Womenomics' in Japan.

Picture: Major Ivan Hirst (right) driving the 1000th Beetle off the production line at Wolfsburg in March 1946 (Credit: Volkswagen AG)

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The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant

4 apr.•1 tim 1 min

A papal visit and German reunification

28 mars•1 tim 1 min

The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal

21 mars•1 tim

Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

14 mars•1 tim 1 min

Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK

7 mars•1 tim 2 min

Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III

28 feb.•1 tim

The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome

21 feb.•1 tim

Italian history

14 feb.•1 tim 1 min

Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal

7 feb.•1 tim 1 min

Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy

31 jan.•1 tim 1 min

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