VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines

History Extra podcast

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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the latest episode of our monthly series charting the historical background of current news events, historians Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter discuss how VJ Day is remembered 80 years on – and explore the rise, fall and rise of women's football. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hello and welcome to our monthly series History Behind the Headlines.
0:35.7	I'm Matt Elton.
0:36.9	In each episode,
0:38.6	an expert panel will be exploring the historical news stories that have caught their eye and the
0:43.0	history that will help you make sense of what's going on in the world. Each month, I'll be
0:47.0	joined by our two regular panelists. I'm Hannah Skoda, I'm fellow and tutor in medieval history
0:52.2	at St John's College in Oxford. I'm Ron Amitter. I'm ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School
1:00.0	and I'm a specialist on modern Chinese history.
1:03.0	Hannah and Rana, thank you both so much as always for being here.
1:06.0	This month has marked the 80th anniversary of VJ Day 15thth of August 1945, and the end of fighting on the Asian
1:12.4	front in the Second World War. Though the conflict in Europe had been over by May, brutal
1:16.5	battles continue to be fought in Southeast Asia until Japan's surrender at the end of the summer.
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