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The History Hour

Prozac

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4879 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The birth of the Prozac generation, the battle to save Afghanistan's ancient artworks and death and violence in the Spanish embassy in Guatemala. Plus we hear about an American political corruption scandal and the launch of the Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past, brought to life by those who were there.

0:09.0

This week, 30 years on, we relive a fatal standoff at the Spanish embassy in Guatemala.

0:14.0

We, the people that were on the street, suddenly her

0:19.0

a gunshot coming through the window from the room that the occupants have taken the hostages.

0:26.0

Also, it's still happening today as jihadists attack ancient artifacts, but we take you back to the moment when curators struggled to save items in the

0:34.5

Kabul Museum from the Taliban wrecking squads. When we opened the

0:39.8

vaults they started attacking any statues in human or animal form.

0:44.0

With each stroke of the hammer, it was as if my own limbs were being hit.

0:48.0

And how the FBI uncovered a political corruption scandal in 1980.

0:54.0

In front of me is $50,000 and $100 bills.

0:59.2

I am placing this money in the desk's draw directly in front of me.

1:04.0

Find out who was lured into corrupt practices later in the podcast.

1:08.0

But first, we're going to take you back to a moment which changed the debate in the developed world about the treatment of psychological

1:14.2

conditions and mental illness.

1:17.3

Depression, anxiety, brain injury and brain degeneration are all problems which have been

1:21.9

increasingly recognised over the last century.

1:24.6

Ideas around treatment have come and gone frequently accompanied by heated argument.

1:30.2

But it was in the mid-1980s that a new and undoubtedly controversial drug was created.

1:35.0

It would go on to stamp its mark all over the world.

1:38.0

The drug, the Antitepressant Prozac.

1:41.0

This report from Ashley Byrne. To its fans the world over, Prozac is bottled sunshine.

1:46.3

It comes in little green and white capsules and it's the ultimate designer drug,

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