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 a notorious massacre during Algeria's bitter internal conflict of the 1990s, hands reaching out in friendship

between Britain and Germany after the Second World War, plus the boy who set a record for

continuously staying awake.

We had a terrible time keeping him awake.

In the daytime we could play basketball and do things like,

that we were active, but night was horrible and the launch of

are you getting it

this is one device

and we are calling it iPhone.

How the smartphone has changed the world in which we live.

But we begin by contemplating Britain's position in Europe.

Now if you think you've heard enough about that since the

referendum in June 2016 which resulted in the decision that the UK should leave the

EU, you might want to stay with us for some instruction from the past. There was a time when Britain was very

keen to join the original European economic community, but on January the 14th, 1963, the French

president vetoed Britain's entry. The trading body the EEC had been formed

by six European countries just a few years earlier and Britain had been in talks to join for

more than a year.

Claire Bowes has been speaking to one of the members of the UK delegation

about her memories of Britain's first rejection by Europe.

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