Dassler brothers' rift

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A collection of this week's Witness History programmes, presented by Max Pearson. The guest is Nicholas Smith, author of "Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers" and Presenter of the BBC's "Sneakernomics" podcast. He explains how footwear revolutionised sport and became high-fashion.

In 1948, two brothers from a small German town called Rudi and Adi Dassler created the sportswear firms Puma and Adidas. Reena Stanton-Sharma hears from Adi Dassler’s daughter, Sigi Dassler, who remembers her father's obsession with footwear and talks about her fondness for the rappers, Run-DMC, who paid tribute to her dad’s shoes in a song.

We also hear about one man's mission to castrate Pablo Escobar's hippos, the unpredictable rule of Kenya's former President, Jomo Kenyatta, the 'Japanese Schindler', and the raising of the 400-year-old Mary Rose.

(Photo: Adi Dassler. Credit: Brauner/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd science.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.1	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah.
0:10.3	That's possibly the most disgusting thing I heard this week.
0:13.4	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here I'm actually holding a donut.
0:18.4	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast. Hello, I'm Max Pearson and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service,
0:27.0	a collection of this week's Witness History Programs.
0:29.0	It's the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:32.0	This week, the tricky business of
0:34.0	dealing with Pablo Escobar's legacy hippos. Your big challenge is not
0:38.6	actually the castration. That's difficult because they have internal testicles. You have to go through a skin that is around
0:45.8	two three thentimeters thick like a bulletproof vest.
0:49.4	Also the raising of the Mary Rose and English Tudor warship.
0:53.0	Even more important to me than the ship is that you can get a feel for the sailors.
0:57.2	You can see the holes in someone's shoe.
0:59.8	You can see their peppercorns, their shoelaces. The man known as the Japanese shindler,
1:05.2	plus the unpredictability of Kenya's Joma Kenyatta.
1:08.1	I saw this extraordinary scene where the president raised chicken hen was chasing two people out of State House.
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