Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions

The History Hour

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History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, recounts being put on trial for sodomy and corruption. Our guest is the BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, who tells us about Malaysian political history.

Iran's first women's minister describes the challenges she had to overcome. We hear how the seat belt and cat's eyes were invented. And a Swedish man remembers the chaos when his country switched to driving on the right-hand-side of the road.

Contributors: Anwar Ibrahim - Malaysian Prime Minister. Mahnaz Afkhami - Iran's first Minister of Women's Affairs. Gunnar Ornmark - step-son of the inventor of the modern seat belt. Glenda Shaw - great-niece of the inventor of cat's eyes. Bjorn Sylvern - on Sweden switching to driving on the right-hand-side.

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0:00.0	From the color and the drama to the sounds and the stories.
0:05.0	World Football in Qatar is the podcast for in the BBC World Service taking you behind
0:09.8	the scenes at the World Cup.
0:12.2	Throughout the tournaments we're meeting the teams, their fans and the people in Qatar,
0:17.0	capturing the stories and the passion of the nations
0:20.0	who are making this competition so exciting.
0:23.0	For a truly global take on the World Cup,
0:25.0	just search for World Footballing Qatar,
0:28.0	wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Hello I'm Max Pearson and welcome to the History Hour Podcast, a collection of this week's witness history
0:44.0	episodes from the BBC World Service, the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:49.2	Coming up a look at the history of car safety from the invention of the three-point seat belt.
0:54.3	I'm so happy that all cars have it today.
0:57.3	It's a little bit of him in every car in all the world.
1:01.8	So that's big. It's really big.
1:04.1	To the story of how the world got cats eyes.
1:07.0	It was his love of a pint that prompted the invention. If he didn't have to go to the old dolphin pub at Queensborough,
1:16.3	it would never have invented cat size.
1:19.5	Also from 1967 the moment Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right
1:24.8	and Iran's first minister for women's affairs. The policeman at the door who always
1:30.6	saluted the ministers didn't know what to do whether he was supposed to
1:34.6	salute a woman so he just put his hand up and sort of like a pretzel turned himself
1:40.0	every witch away that's all coming up later in the podcast, but first we're going to
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