A bomb, whose creation would tip the scales of global power, a nuclear physicist who sought to

redress the balance. The bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service.

Season 2 available now.

Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson. This week the history of television

around the world as a dominant medium we'll look at its attraction and its

impact will be in Africa to chart the influence of social commentary in sitcom cuts, also the training required for a career in Mexican telenevelas.

We had like dancing classes and I didn't want to learn to dance and he always told me that's going to be important in your life in your acting career.

You have to learn to ride a horse to dance.

Plus from the years of Cold War Division, the Soviet James Bond, and the global impact of an American soap

opera question, Who Shop J.R.? At the betting shops, the supposedly dead dusty, Sue Ellen's ex-lobber, is the hot favourite at 6 to 4.

Sue Ellen herself is 4 to 1, and J.R's brother Bobby is quoted at 10 to 1.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

Now just this past week an executive from the giant global streaming service Netflix

predicted that broadcast TV as opposed to internet-based services

could die out in the next couple of decades.

If that's correct, it would mark the end of a medium which has shaped the world since the early 20th century.

So we're going to remember some of the important events that have shaped TV around the world,

from Latin America to the Soviet Union, from Britain to the US.

And we're going to start in Africa.

In 1996, Wale E. de Nugas sitcom Papa Adjasco first hit Nigerian TV screens.

Following the ups and downs of the Adjasco family, it quickly became one of the most successful

TV shows in Nigerian history.

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