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🗓️ 3 June 2023
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0:00.0 | You're listening to an airwave media podcast. |
0:04.0 | Jane loved crisps. |
0:07.0 | She ate them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
0:10.0 | Even at fancy-pants restaurants. |
0:12.0 | Your crisps, madam. |
0:14.0 | Years went by, but then crisps stopped doing it for her. |
0:17.0 | They got her thrown out of cinemas. |
0:20.0 | And were forever in the bedsheets. |
0:24.0 | crisps. |
0:25.0 | They're kind of like your current account. |
0:27.0 | Just because they were good ones doesn't mean you have to stick with them forever. |
0:31.0 | Maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service. |
0:41.0 | A UK cable on the Tiananmen Square Master from June 5, 1989. |
0:47.0 | History is as often as it is anything else. |
0:50.0 | About remembering the things that we might collectively wish to choose to forget. |
0:54.0 | Or worse yet, remembering things that others, especially those in power, might wish us to forget. |
1:00.0 | It's one of the main jobs of historians and those who study history to do their best then to not allow that to happen. |
1:06.0 | To ensure that even if history is ultimately written by the winner, |
1:09.0 | that they're at least not allowed to burn all the books or bury the scholars in opposition. |
1:13.0 | 30 years ago, in 1989, between April 15 and June 4. |
1:18.0 | The capital city of China, Beijing, was gripped by mass protests led by university students, |
1:23.0 | factory workers, government reformists, and regular everyday citizens who wanted substantive democratic change to their country's government. |
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