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.

This week, Murder in Madrid, a key moment in Spain's return to democracy.

The buzzer went.

My friend went out to open the door and got a gun pointed at him.

Get those hands right up, they said.

Also, the writing of one of the world's favorite children's stories.

Mr. Willie Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets and rich caramels that change colour every 10 seconds as you suck them.

Plus the arrival of the first domestic microwave ovens and still going strong after 75 years.

We'll be hearing about the BBC's longest-running series Desert Island Discs later in the

podcast. But we begin in Australia. It was in the late 18th century that the country was

first colonised by the British, but of course Australia was

populated for at least 50,000 years before that by the Aboriginal peoples of

Australia. The struggle for Aboriginal rights continues to this day.

A key moment came, however, in 1972, with a protest that championed the cause of the country's

indigenous peoples.

It was on the 26th of January that year that four Aboriginal men arrived in

Canberra with a beach umbrella, planted it into the ground outside Parliament House,

and created what became known as the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

Ashley Byrne has been hearing this story.

The intent of them going down there was to just set up a small protest that night

so that when the Prime Minister got up the next

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