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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.
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0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
0:10.8 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
0:17.5 | With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to |
0:22.4 | helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put |
0:28.3 | together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life, |
0:35.0 | check out BBC Sounds. Hi, it's Nicola Carcllin. I'm dropping into this feed to tell you about history's |
0:41.9 | youngest heroes, a new podcast for BBC Radio 4. In this series, you'll hear stories about |
0:48.4 | rebellion, risk, and the radical power of youth. Over the next 10 minutes, you'll hear a preview from episode one. |
0:59.6 | The South African black nationalist leader, Mr Nelson Mandela, |
1:03.7 | is to be freed from prison tomorrow. |
1:06.2 | The announcement was made by President F.W. DeClerc |
1:09.1 | at a news conference in Cape Town three hours ago. |
1:12.4 | Well, I'm a South African. I was 19 years old on the day that he was released. |
1:18.8 | Professor Johnny Steinberg teaches African studies at Yale University. He remembers that day |
1:24.2 | in February 1990 when Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. |
1:28.3 | A day after he's released, he came home to Soweto, which had been where he lived 27 years earlier. |
1:34.7 | And I was one of hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Soweto there to get a glimpse of him to celebrate perhaps the most extraordinary day in my country's history. So he has been with |
1:46.9 | me as he's been with every South African ever since, always had a place in our hearts, |
1:52.9 | sometimes in complicated ways. We may remember Mandela as a dignified elderly man who spent 27 years |
2:00.4 | imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa. |
2:04.3 | After he was released, he negotiated an end to racial segregation in his country |
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