The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention

The History Hour

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🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Jenni Barclay from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She tells us about some of the most significant volcanic eruptions in history.

We start with the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in 2010, which caused air travel to stop across Europe. Then, memories of the Bolivian Water War in 2000.

In the second half of the programme, we hear how the EpiPen was invented by Sheldon Kaplan. Plus, how Rosalind Franklin’s research helped determine the structure of DNA. Finally, the discovery of the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion, underwater off the coast of Egypt.

Contributors: Sigrun Hreinsdottir - scientist who saw the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull. Jenni Barclay - professor of volcanology at the University of East Anglia, UK. Oscar Olivera - union official who led Bolivian Water War protests and negotiations. Michael Kaplan - son of Sheldon Kaplan, inventor of the EpiPen. Michael Mesa - colleague of Sheldon Kaplan. Jenifer Glyn - sister of scientist Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the structure of DNA. Franck Goddio - underwater archaeologist who discovered Thonis-Heracleion.

(Photo: Eyjafjallajokull erupting in 2010. Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

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0:00.0	Sport, but not as you know it.
0:03.0	Yes, you're good enough.
0:05.0	We wish we could take you, but you're a girl.
0:08.0	Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service.
0:11.0	The rules were holding her back. So she would have to rewrite them.
0:15.8	Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:18.8	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:28.0	the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:31.3	Coming up, the history of the epipen.
0:34.0	Mommy says I got an allergy.
0:35.8	I get all red and bumpy.
0:37.2	I don't breathe so good.
0:39.2	My tongue gets itchy.
0:40.6	It made me really scared. This, this, this is my happy event.
0:46.0	Also the so-called Water Wars in Bolivia in 2010.
0:50.0	The people were saying,
0:52.0	we're going to win, we are going to be victorious.
0:55.0	They are not going to impose upon us. The water has to go back to the hands of the people.
1:02.0	Plus the discovery of an ancient underwater city,
1:05.3	and Roslyn Franklin, the scientist who helped uncover DNA secrets.
1:09.8	It's been a rather unexpected influence because she has become, I hate the phrase, a sort of feminist
1:16.4	icon which she never was. She thought of herself as a scientist, not as a woman scientist.
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