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No One Saw It Coming

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  • Naked Truth about X-Rays
    Before selfies, before CT scans, before social media filters and front-facing cameras… there was the x-ray. Discovered by accident in a 19th-century lab, it didn’t just revolutionise medicine, it ignited a cultural obsession with seeing inside ourselves and remains a powerful example of what can happen when knowledge is shared freely. Guest: Dr. Suzie Sheehy - Accelerator Physicist, Author, and Science Communicator. Author of The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed our World
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  • Absinthe was Framed for Murder
    The ‘Green Fairy’ was the party drink of the Belle Époque, featuring in artworks, poetry and literature. But then it was framed for a heinous crime... Guest: Evan Rail - food and drink writer; author of The Absinthe Forger. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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  • The Hidden Origins of Chemotherapy
    These days chemotherapy is a common treatment for cancer. But did you know that part of the reason it exists today is because of a terrible accident that happened in Italy during the Second World War, that was immediately covered up? Guest: Jennet Conant - journalist and author of The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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  • America’s Secret Pact with the Mafia
    When the US wanted to beat the Nazis, they turned to an unlikely ally: the Mafia. But who really won as a result of this clandestine coalition? Guest: Matthew Black - historian and author of Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War IIGet in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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  • The Blunder that Broke the Berlin Wall
    It's one of the most famous events of modern history, but what if the fall of the Berlin Wall began with a small slip up during a routine press conference?Guest: Dr Katrin Schreiter - Senior Lecturer in German and History, Kings College London. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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The bit players, the unexpected twists, the turning point you missed. Join Walkley award-winner Marc Fennell as he uncovers the incredible moments that changed the course of history. New episodes out Tuesday.
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