When you’re the most famous foreigner in China… In 1981 English lessons were watched on TV by about 500 million people there. Kathy Flower tells me what that was like ⁦BBC World Service⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

🇺🇸 In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman changed the way we shop 🛒 He came up with a 'folding basket carrier', later known as a trolley 🛍️ They caught on & shoppers could finally buy more than they could carry 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Here's our celebration of the new Manchester night bus, and the romanticism of bus travel. 28 mins of joy, thanks to Vicky Farncombe and Ian Burke bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Huge thanks to Vicky and Clare for all their hard work on this. A proper eye-opener helping to make it, a y'know what, it turned out brill - 'Detectorists on a bus', apparently!

“I'm hoping we’ll meet some characters… you never quite know who's going to be on a night bus!” Loved making this prog with the brilliant Ian Burke🚍 Sound by Craig Boardman, editing Clare Fordham 🎧on BBC Sounds tinyurl.com/5e7uw2yb

This week has been one of the most enjoyable experiences I’ve had producing Pick of the Week! 🎧 Tune in today at 6:15pm (UK) on BBC Radio 4 as John Wilson curates standout BBC audio—Manchester’s night bus, Trump & transgenic mice & lots more.Listen here 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

I picked the week BBC Radio 4 with help from Dr Adam Rutherford Tim Harford Sara Collins, Edwyn Collins, Frankie Bridge Sara Davies Nuala McGovern, produced by John Offord 📻🎙️🎧 Listen now BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

First spacewalk - on 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk. 🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/3DQRGj9

A cracking Witness History today from ⁦Vicky Farncombe⁩ Richard Nixon’s contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home in 1969. Written two days before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon ⁦BBC World Service⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

In the event of a moon landing disaster, Richard Nixon had a contingency speech ready in case the astronauts never made it home. 🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/41QvihC

A curated collection of audio with Nihal Arthanayake at the helm, 1815 tonight on R4. Including Quentin Sommerville 📻 Colin Paterson 📺 Catherine Carr Vicky Farncombe 🇯🇲🇬🇧 Adrian Edmondson ❎ Jim Al-Khalili James Gallagher bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Absolutely chuffed that Jason Mohammad chose my episode about Exercise Tiger to feature on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week - for the best programmes on BBC radio. Read on to find out about Exercise Tiger - the disastrous D-Day rehearsal. 🧵

Archaeologist Khalil Hariri risked everything - and was even shot at - when he rescued 400 artefacts from the clutches of the Islamic State group 10 years ago in Palmyra. Today’s Witness History on ⁦BBC World Service⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Eurovision Song Contest starts tomorrow. But with Russia banned, President Putin has revived the Intervision Song Contest - the USSR's answer to Eurovision. I interviewed Marion Rung, who twice achieved top 10 Eurovision finishes before winning Intervision in 1980. Read on for one of the

🇺🇸 In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York, after both its engines failed shortly after take off ✈️ All 155 people on board survived 🛟 I spoke to Dave Sanderson, the last passenger to be rescued, for BBC World Service youtube.com/watch?v=KuzS8B…

This summer on Witness History we have the joy of making the origin stories of two classic 80s films with big birthdays. ⁦Megan Jones⁩ brings us Making Jaws and on 3 July it’s my turn with Back to the Future ⁦BBC World Service⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

🚂 In 1951, a train was hijacked from Communist Czechoslovakia + diverted to freedom in West Germany 🇨🇿 Most of the passengers had no idea they were going to cross the Iron Curtain that day 📻 Karel Ruml guarded the brake with a gun: BBC World Service bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Loved this Jo!

👀 In 1978, artist Eric Hill noticed his toddler kept lifting the paper he was working on, to see what was underneath 🐶 He came up with a new format for a children's book 'lift-the-flap' & created Spot the dog 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… 👦 Featuring Teddy's radio debut