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The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The story of the famed 1970s Indian conservation movement. Plus we speak to Professor Vinita Damodaran about the history of Indian environmentalism. Also Patti Boulaye on escaping the Biafran war, we hear from Dorothy Butler Gilliam - an African American news pioneer, why Afghanistan's first private radio station helped change a generation, and memories of a taboo-breaking gay support group in 1990s India.

(Photo by Bhawan Singh/The The India Today Group via Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:04.8	bringing the past to life in the company of those who were there. This week, caught in the middle of
0:10.3	the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s. Explosions going off. of the
0:15.0	middle of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s.
0:16.0	Tears just running.
0:18.0	We tore up our clothes and tried to mend some of the wounds of people who were injured.
0:23.0	Plus, a dangerous game, how radio changed Afghan culture
0:27.0	after the Taliban were driven out in the early 2000s.
0:30.0	Public reaction was so strong, I mean so positive but of course also very
0:35.2	controversial people threatening to shut us down or kill us and beat us up and
0:39.2	and a pioneering African-American journalist. I had an assignment in very nice neighborhood in Washington.
0:46.0	I went to the door and the doorman was standing there and he said,
0:51.0	the maid's entrance is at the back.
0:53.0	And I said, well, I'm not a maid.
0:54.5	I'm a reporter for the Washington Post.
0:56.6	He looked shocked.
0:57.8	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
1:00.0	But we start with the escalating threats
1:02.2	to the global environment.
1:03.9	I say escalating because whereas now few people can be unaware of the dangers facing the planet,
1:09.6	it wasn't always that way.
1:11.5	In the 1970s, in the Indian Himalayas, for example, it was down to a determined
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