Referendums and Teletubbies

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

We go to Quebec in 1995 when voters went to the polls to decide whether the province should declare independence from Canada.

Tim Marshall, the author of The Power of Geography and presenter of the World Service podcast, The Compass, explores other referendums which have taken place in recent history.

Plus the creation of children's TV series Teletubbies in 1994. It became a global hit.

(Photo: Voters gather in the streets of Barcelona. Credit: Marco Panzetti/NurPhoto Getty Images)

Contributors: Jean-François Lisée and Stephane Dion - on the Quebec referendum Paul Kelly - Australian political correspondent Praveen Jain - Indian photojournalist Patricia da Silva - Jean Charles de Menezes' cousin Anne Wood- creator of Teletubbies

Transcript

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0:00.0	World Football in Qatar is the podcast taking you behind the scenes with all 32 teams at the World Cup.
0:07.0	We're hearing from the players, the fans and people in Qatar, telling the truly global story of the competition.
0:15.0	That's World Football in Qatar from the BBC World Service.
0:19.0	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:37.4	Coming up, Australia's gravest constitutional crisis, the 1975 sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
0:43.8	There was a government elected by the people that we go back to colonialism and the government's
0:49.7	removed without the people having the right to say it.
0:53.0	Also, when Hindu extremists
0:55.2	demolished the 16th century mosque in the Indian city of Ayodia
0:58.9	in 1992, sparking a wave of communal violence. At first it seemed that discipline would hold out.
1:05.0	Hindu holy men waited patiently for the ceremony
1:08.0	the stars.
1:09.0	Most of the vast crowd were kept well away
1:10.0	from the ground in front of the disputed boss.
1:13.4	And how the British children's TV show Telly Tubbies went global.
1:18.3	But first, an attempt to create an entirely new nation.
1:22.1	In October 1995, the people of Quebec voted to decide whether the province should
1:27.2	declare independence from Canada.
1:29.4	The opinion polls were on a knife edge and the world was watching to see if enough photos were in
1:34.0	favor of what would be a dramatic separation. Kevin Caners hears the first-hand
1:39.1	testimony of Jean-Francis-Lisset and Stephen Dionne, who represented opposite sides of the debate.
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