Look Closer
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Look closer and see what others miss! Short documentaries with real photos and clear drawings: one calm narrator explains a place, a picture or a person, and ends with a question for the class.
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1Kenya, from the snow on Mount Kenya down to the Great Rift Valley, the savannah and the Indian Ocean coast.
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2Nairobi National Park, 7 km from the centre of Kenya's capital: giraffes in front of skyscrapers, lions and rhinos, a fence on three sides and an open south.
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3The Great Migration seen by a newborn wildebeest: more than a million animals walk from Tanzania to Kenya and cross the Mara River.
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4How rangers in Kenya recognise and protect rhinos: ear marks, daily watching, numbers rising from 1,603 in 2020 to 2,100 in 2024, keepers feeding orphan calves.
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5The Maasai Mara and its people: what mara means in Maa, Maasai families who share their land with wildlife, visitors whose money helps pay for school, guides who read every track.
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6Scottish Highlands: What are the Highlands?
Where the Highlands are, what glens and lochs are, and how ice cut the valleys.
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7Scottish Highlands: The Highland Games
The Highland Games are a summer sports day in Scotland, with the caber toss, the tug of war, pipe bands and kilts.
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8Scottish Highlands: Is this Nessie?
A close look at the famous 1934 photo of the Loch Ness monster shows it was a trick.
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9Scottish Highlands: The Highland cow
The Highland cow's long, thick hair keeps it warm and dry in the cold, wet hills of Scotland.
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10The Mississippi: What is the Mississippi?
The Mississippi River, from a little stream at Lake Itasca, in Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico, and its length compared with the Loire.
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11The Mississippi: Steamboats and Mark Twain
How a Mississippi steamboat works, and how the pilot Samuel Clemens took his writer's name, Mark Twain, from a call for safe water.
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12The Mississippi: Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's novel *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, Huck runs away from his cruel father, meets Jim, a man escaping from slavery, and they travel down the Mississippi on a raft.
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13The Mississippi: Cities on the river
Four cities on the Mississippi, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, and the barges that carry heavy things between them.
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14Masks and disguises: Halloween costumes
An old cloth Halloween mask from Ireland, then photos of homemade and shop-bought costumes from 1934 to 1963.
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15Who's who in the British royal family on the Buckingham Palace balcony, with real photos and a drawn family tree.
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16Masks and disguises: Notting Hill Carnival
Notting Hill Carnival in London, with real photos of its huge costumes and steel bands.
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17Families: Jobs in family names
Old pictures of a blacksmith, a baker, a tailor, a cooper and a fisher, and how these jobs became English family names.
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18Families: The Obamas in the White House
The Obama family's life in the White House, in real photos: two daughters, a grandmother, two dogs and a garden.
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19The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, the legend of the giant Finn McCool, then the true story of the lava.
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20The leprechaun of old Irish stories is a tiny shoemaker with hidden gold, and he tricks a boy called Tom.
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21A famous statue in Dublin and the Irish legend of the Children of Lir, four children who become swans for nine hundred years.
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22Irish dancing, with the arms down and the feet fast, and why: a story says the dancers hid their dancing, but the teachers wanted a very good dance.
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23A British Christmas: The first Christmas card
One of the first Christmas cards was made in London in 1843, and sending cards is still a big Christmas tradition in Britain today.
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24A British Christmas: The Trafalgar Square tree
Every December, a big Christmas tree from the forests near Oslo stands in London's Trafalgar Square, a thank-you from Norway since 1947.
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25A British Christmas: Outdoor swimming
On Christmas morning in London, a swimming club races in the Serpentine, a very cold lake in Hyde Park, for the Peter Pan Cup.
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26A British Christmas: Christmas pudding
The British Christmas pudding, once called plum pudding, has no plums in it; families stir it, make a wish and bring it to the table on fire.
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27A narrowboat on a London canal is a long, narrow home, about two metres wide to fit the locks, and many boat people move to a new place every two weeks.
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28An American tiny house is smaller than many classrooms, often has wheels, and fits everything in with furniture that does two jobs and a bed in the loft.
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29The igloo of the Canadian Arctic is a house of snow blocks laid in a spiral, warmer inside than out, first built by the Inuit, whose word iglu means any house.
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30Homes: Underground desert houses
In the hot Australian desert town of Coober Pedy, many people live in dugouts, homes dug into the hills that stay about 23 degrees all year.
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31On Broadway: The Great White Way
Broadway in New York has 41 big theatres, most of them in the streets next to it, and its bright lights give it the name the Great White Way.
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32Before a show, actors never say "Good luck!": they say "Break a leg!", a theatre way to wish the opposite.
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33A musical tells a story with songs and dancing; three Broadway hits are The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King and Wicked.
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34On Broadway: Behind the curtain
Behind a Broadway musical, many people work where the audience cannot see: musicians in the pit, costume helpers and actors ready to step in.
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35Families: The Railway Children
The family of E. Nesbit's book The Railway Children (1906): three children, their mother, a little house next to a railway, the six red flags that stop a train, and their father coming home.
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36Masks and disguises: World Book Day
World Book Day in Britain and Ireland: on the first Thursday in March, children go to school dressed as a character from a book, with homemade costumes, reading at school and a one-pound book token.
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37The Tower of London: The ravens
The ravens of the Tower of London: always six or more, the legend that the Tower will fall down if they leave, and the Ravenmaster who looks after them.
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38The Tower of London: The Beefeaters
The Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London: their two uniforms, their years as soldiers, their homes inside the Tower, and the nightly Ceremony of the Keys.
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39The Tower of London: The Crown Jewels
The Crown Jewels at the Tower of London: the Imperial State Crown and its diamonds, St Edward's Crown at the 2023 coronation, and how the jewels are kept safe.
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40The Tower of London: A zoo in the Tower
The royal zoo at the Tower of London (about 1200 to 1835): animals given to kings, the polar bear that fished in the Thames in 1252, and the wire animals there today.
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1A portrait of Queen Elizabeth the First hides secret messages: eyes and ears on her cloak, a snake and a rainbow.
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2Portraits: Holbein's Ambassadors
Hans Holbein's painting The Ambassadors: two friends from France, a lute with a broken string, and a strange shape on the floor that becomes a skull from the side.
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3Portraits: Hogarth and his dog
A close look at William Hogarth's 1745 self-portrait: his face in an oval painting, his pug, three books, the palette and the line of beauty.
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4Frederick Douglass, from his escape from slavery in 1838 to his work as a writer and speaker, and why he almost never smiles in his portraits.
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5Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and went back to Maryland about thirteen times to lead about seventy people to freedom.
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6Civil rights: Susan B. Anthony
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted in Rochester, New York, when American women were not allowed to vote, and she was arrested, put on trial and fined.
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7Ruby Bridges, aged six, became the first Black pupil at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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8The story of Nelson Mandela, from a small prison cell on Robben Island to his first vote and the presidency of South Africa in 1994.
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9Civil rights: Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai, a schoolgirl in Pakistan, writes a secret BBC diary, speaks for girls' right to go to school and becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever.
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10Unusual schools: School of the Air
At the School of the Air in Alice Springs, Australia, children on huge cattle stations learn at home: by radio in 1951, and today with their teacher on a computer screen.
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11Summerhill is a school in England where lessons are optional and pupils vote on the rules, and in 2000 the pupils held a school meeting in a courtroom.
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12Foula is a small Scottish island where fewer than twenty people live, and its school had four pupils in 2022, all with the same teacher in one classroom.
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13Grise Fiord is the most northern village in Canada, where children learn in Inuktitut and in English and, from November to the middle of February, go to school in the dark.
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14Greener cities: New York's High Line
An old railway nine metres above a New York street became the High Line, a park full of wild plants.
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15Greener cities: Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave its trees email addresses, and thousands of people wrote to them, some with love letters.
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16Greener cities: Singapore's Supertrees
The Supertrees of Singapore are giant trees made of concrete and steel and covered in plants.
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17Greener cities: London, a park city
London became the world's first National Park City, with its parks, rivers, millions of trees and wild animals.
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18Ellis Island was the door into America for more than twelve million people from 1892 to 1954, and Annie Moore was the first person through it.
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19New York: The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty and the poem Emma Lazarus wrote for it in 1883, now on a plaque inside its base.
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20About seven thousand people from more than twenty countries lived at 97 Orchard Street in New York from 1863 to 1935, among them the Baldizzi family from Sicily.
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21New York: Chinatown's street signs
The street signs of Chinatown in New York have been in English and in Chinese since 1969, and an artist wrote the characters by hand.
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22Helping others: The RNLI lifeboats
A baker leaves her work when her pager beeps, because she is a volunteer on an RNLI lifeboat crew.
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23Helping others: Children in Need
BBC Children in Need is an evening of shows when people all over the UK do funny challenges to raise money for children.
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24Helping others: Captain Tom and Max
Two true stories from 2020: Captain Tom Moore walked around his garden at ninety-nine, and Max Woosey, aged ten, slept in a tent for three years.
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25Helping others: Guide dog puppies
In the UK, volunteer families look after a guide dog puppy for one year before it starts its real training.
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26New Zealand is a country with two names, New Zealand in English and Aotearoa in Māori, and one of its hills has a Māori name of eighty-five letters that tells a story.
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27The haka is a Māori dance with strong words, and Ka Mate, the most famous haka, was made by a Māori chief, Te Rauparaha, around 1820.
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28New Zealand: The Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 is an agreement between Britain and the Māori chiefs, written in English and translated into Māori in one night.
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29New Zealand: The language nests
The kōhanga reo are the language nests of New Zealand, where older speakers talk only Māori to little children, and Māori families opened the first one in 1982.
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30Into the ice: Shackleton's Endurance
Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by the Antarctic ice in 1915, and all twenty-eight men survived.
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31Into the ice: Finding the Endurance
In 2022, a team of explorers and scientists found the wreck of the Endurance, three thousand metres under the Antarctic ice.
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32Port Lockroy is a small British post office and museum in Antarctica, where a summer team sends visitors' postcards and counts the gentoo penguins next door.
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33The story of Matthew Henson, the Black American explorer who crossed the frozen sea near the North Pole in 1909 with Robert Peary and four Inuit men.
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34Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective in the world: his friend Doctor Watson, Arthur Conan Doyle's books and stories, and how the writer let him die in 1893, then brought him back in 1903.
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35Sherlock Holmes: 221B Baker Street
221B Baker Street, the address of Sherlock Holmes: a house that did not exist in 1887, the letters readers sent to him, and the museum there today.
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36Sherlock Holmes's famous hat, the deerstalker: where its name comes from, how Sidney Paget drew it in 1891, and how actors made it his.
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37Sherlock Holmes: The real Sherlock
Doctor Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle's teacher in Edinburgh, could tell things about a patient just by looking at him, and he inspired Sherlock Holmes.
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38Sport for everyone: The Paralympics
On the day the 1948 London Olympics opened, sixteen wheelchair users held their own archery games on a hospital lawn: the start of the Paralympics.
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39Sport for everyone: Women's football
On Boxing Day 1920, 53,000 people watched the Dick, Kerr Ladies, a women's team from a Preston factory.
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40Sport for everyone: Blind football
In blind football, four players in eyeshades follow a noisy ball and a guide's voice while the crowd stays silent during play.
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41Sport for everyone: Calgary 1988
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Jamaica's bobsleigh team and the English ski jumper Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards won nothing, but people loved them.
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42A sugar shack is a small wooden house in a Quebec maple forest where, each spring, sap is boiled into maple syrup that people also pour on snow to make maple taffy.
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43Canada Day, the first of July, is Canada's birthday, with red and white clothes, planes, fireworks and a flag with a maple leaf.
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44Canada: Churchill's polar bears
Churchill, a small town on Hudson Bay in the north of Canada, shares its autumn with polar bears that wait on the shore for the bay to freeze.
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45The ice road to Aklavik, a small village in the north of Canada, is built every winter on frozen rivers, so that trucks and families can drive there until the ice melts in spring.
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46In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from his holiday and found a mould on a dish of bacteria, with a clear circle where no bacteria grew: the discovery of penicillin.
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47In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen saw a screen glow in the dark and found invisible rays that went through skin but not bone: the first X-ray of a person shows his wife's hand.
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48Lucky mistakes: The microwave oven
In 1945, the chocolate bar in Percy Spencer's pocket melted next to a radar machine.
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49Lucky mistakes: The Post-it Note
In 1968, a scientist made a glue that was too weak, and years later a colleague's bookmarks, which often fell out of his song book, gave it a use: the Post-it Note.
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50British banknotes: Winston Churchill
The five-pound note, the first Bank of England note made of plastic, shows Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister in the Second World War, with his words of 1940, a clock and a hidden word.
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51British banknotes: Jane Austen
The ten-pound note shows Jane Austen, the English writer of Pride and Prejudice, with a line about reading from her novel and small raised dots for blind people.
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52British banknotes: J.M.W. Turner
The twenty-pound note shows the painter J.M.W. Turner and his famous painting The Fighting Temeraire, an old warship pulled up the river by a small steamboat.
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53British banknotes: Alan Turing
The Bank of England's fifty-pound note shows Alan Turing, a pioneer of computer science, with his work on early computers and a strip of ones and zeros.
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54Harry Potter's Britain: Leadenhall Market
Leadenhall Market is an old covered market in London, linked to the first Harry Potter film and built on the centre of Roman Londinium.
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55Harry Potter's Britain: Platform 9¾
Platform 9¾ is a sign and half a trolley in a wall at King's Cross, a big London station, where the real platforms 9 and 10 have tracks, not a wall, between them.
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56Harry Potter's Britain: Edinburgh's graveyard
Greyfriars Kirkyard, an old graveyard in Edinburgh, has stones with names that Harry Potter fans know, after a first stop at the Glenfinnan Viaduct of the films.
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57Harry Potter's Britain: Christ Church, Oxford
The 500-year-old dining hall of Christ Church, an Oxford college, was copied for the Harry Potter films, and one of its windows hides another story: Alice in Wonderland.
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58Hurling is an Irish sport played with a wooden stick called a hurley and a ball, with fifteen players in each team and H-shaped goals.
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59The Book of Kells is a copy of the Gospels made by monks more than 1,200 years ago, with two cats and some mice hidden on one page.
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60About 12 km off the coast of Ireland, monks once lived on a steep rock in the Atlantic called Skellig Michael, in stone huts shaped like beehives.
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61Every year in March, plumbers turn the Chicago River bright green for St Patrick's Day, Ireland's national day, celebrated around the world.
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62Stage to screen: Romeo and Juliet
Every year, thousands of letters arrive in Verona for Juliet, a girl who never lived: her story travelled from an Italian tale to Shakespeare's play, to West Side Story and the cinema.
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63Stage to screen: The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy's shoes are silver in L. Frank Baum's 1900 book and red in the 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz; one pair of the ruby slippers is in a Washington museum.
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64On stage, Joey the war horse is a cane and leather puppet moved by three puppeteers: his story began in Devon, became a book in 1982, a play in 2007 and a film in 2011.
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65Stage to screen: A Christmas Carol
In 1853, Charles Dickens stood alone on a stage and read A Christmas Carol, doing all the voices himself; the story of Scrooge also became plays, a silent film in 1901 and many later films.
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66Britain's strangest contests: cheese rolling
Cheese rolling on Cooper's Hill, in the west of England, is a race down a very steep hill after a big round cheese, with rugby players waiting at the bottom.
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67Britain's strangest contests: the Olney pancake race
The Olney pancake race is a Pancake Day race in an English town, where women run to the church door with a pancake in a frying pan, and a town in Kansas copies it.
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68Britain's strangest contests: bog snorkelling
Bog snorkelling is a strange contest in Wales: every August, swimmers race through a trench of dark brown water in a bog, with a snorkel and flippers.
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69Britain's strangest contests: the conker championships
Conkers is a British playground game with the seeds of the horse chestnut tree, and every October a village in England holds the World Conker Championships.
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70Wales: the village with the long name
A small village in Wales has a railway station sign with a 58-letter name that tells the story of the place, and the name was made longer in the 1860s to bring visitors.
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71Wales: the road sign with the wrong Welsh
Road signs in Wales are in Welsh and English, and in 2008 a sign in Swansea went up with an automatic out-of-office email in Welsh instead of the right words.
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72Wales: the red dragon on the flag
The red dragon on the flag of Wales comes from an old story about two dragons under a hill in north Wales, but the flag only became official in 1959, and there is no dragon on the flag of the United Kingdom.
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73Wales: one mountain with two names
The highest mountain in Wales has two names, Snowdon in English and Yr Wyddfa in Welsh, and since 2022 the national park around it uses the Welsh name in English too.
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74Cricket spread from England across the Commonwealth, and its greatest batsman, Don Bradman, practised as a boy with a stump and a golf ball and ended with an average of 99.94.
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75National sports: Aussie Rules football
In the Australian state of Victoria, people get a day off work for a football parade: Australian rules football, or footy, is part of everyday life there.
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76Ice hockey is Canada's national winter sport, and its great prize, the Stanley Cup, began in 1892 as a silver bowl bought in London: today each winning player takes it home for one day.
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77Basketball began in 1891 at a snowy American college, where a teacher nailed two peach baskets to a gym balcony; today, college basketball is huge in the USA.
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78Time capsules: Paul Revere's box
In 1795 Samuel Adams and Paul Revere put a time capsule under the first stone of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, and workers found it again in 2014, more than two hundred years later.
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79In September 1938, Westinghouse buried a time capsule of everyday things fifteen metres under the New York World's Fair, to be opened in 6939, and sent a guide to libraries so the future could find it.
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80Time capsules: The Voyager Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Record is a time capsule that left Earth in 1977 on the two Voyager spacecraft, with greetings, sounds, music and pictures of life on Earth, and a cover that shows how to play it.
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81Thanksgiving: The first Thanksgiving
In 1620 the Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to the land of the Wampanoag, and in autumn 1621 the English and Massasoit's men shared a three-day harvest meal, the first Thanksgiving.
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82Thanksgiving: The famous painting
Jennie Brownscombe's famous 1914 painting of the first Thanksgiving gets several things wrong: the feather headdresses, the log cabin and the size of the two groups at the real meal in 1621.
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83Thanksgiving: Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale, the writer of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", wrote to the presidents for years to get one Thanksgiving day for the whole country, and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln said yes.
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84Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving today
Thanksgiving Day brings American families together, with a turkey in the oven, the New York parade on TV, a big dinner with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, and the wishbone.
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1Before alarm clocks, many British workers paid a knocker-up, who tapped on their bedroom windows with a long stick to wake them up in time for the mill.
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2In 1908, Lewis Hine photographed Sadie Pfeifer, a small girl at work in a South Carolina cotton mill, and his child labour photos helped change American laws.
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3Working lives: The matchgirls' strike
In July 1888, about 1,400 women and girls walked out of the Bryant and May match factory in London and went on strike.
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4Working lives: Rosie the Riveter
The "We Can Do It!" poster, made by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse in 1943, hung in its factories for about two weeks and became famous forty years later.
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5Dot paintings from the desert of central Australia are made of thousands of small dots, and they can also be a kind of map.
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6In 1928, the minister John Flynn started a flying doctor service in the Australian Outback, and Alfred Traeger's pedal radio let faraway farms call it.
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7The Dog Fence crosses 5,614 kilometres of the Australian Outback to keep dingoes away from sheep farms, and it changes nature on its two sides.
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8Uluru is a huge red rock in the middle of Australia, sacred to the Anangu, and its climb closed for ever in 2019.
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9Australia: The Stolen Generations
Between about 1910 and 1970, Australian governments took Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families; in 2008, the Prime Minister said sorry.
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10On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, and its radio beep shocked the United States and started the space race.
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11The space race: Katherine Johnson
Before his flight round the Earth in 1962, the astronaut John Glenn asked Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician, to check the computer's numbers by hand.
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12The space race: The Moon photos
Some people say the Apollo 11 Moon photos are fake, so this episode looks closer at the flag that seems to wave, the black sky with no stars and a sharp bootprint.
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13The space race: Animals in space
Before people went into space, fruit flies, mice, monkeys and dogs went first, and in 1961 the chimpanzee Ham showed that a living creature could think and work in space.
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14In April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, and engineers found a way to fit square filters into round holes to bring the astronauts home.
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15In Mumbai, about 5,000 dabbawalas carry around 200,000 hot lunches a day in metal boxes, and a code painted on each lid takes every box to the right person.
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16India: The Golden Temple kitchen
Next to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a free kitchen called a langar serves meals to about 100,000 people a day, and everyone eats side by side on the floor.
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17Five hundred years ago, pepper from Kerala, India, was so precious that people called it black gold, so in 1497 Vasco da Gama sailed round Africa to buy it directly.
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18India: The first curry house in Britain
In 1810, Sake Dean Mahomed from Patna, India, opened the Hindoostane Coffee House in London, the first Indian restaurant in Britain.
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19In 1823, the Singpho people of Assam showed a Scottish trader a tea plant that grew wild in the forest, and Assam became one of the great tea regions.
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20Congo Square in New Orleans was full of music every Sunday two hundred years ago: enslaved and free Black people danced and played drums there, and many historians say its rhythms helped to create jazz.
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21Louis Armstrong, born poor in New Orleans in 1901, learned the cornet in a home for boys and became one of the most famous jazz musicians in history.
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22In New Orleans, a jazz funeral walks to the cemetery behind a brass band playing slow hymns, then dances back to fast, happy music with a second line of umbrellas.
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23New Orleans: The Mardi Gras Indians
Every year, the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans sew a new suit by hand, covered in feathers and tiny beads that make pictures.
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24New Orleans: The Musicians' Village
After the 2005 floods in New Orleans, two musicians and a charity created the Musicians' Village, a group of brightly painted homes with its own music centre.
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25New Orleans: The French Quarter
The French Quarter is the oldest part of New Orleans: its street names are French, but Spanish tiles and brick houses with courtyards recall the forty years when Spain ruled the city.
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26Shakespeare's Globe: The groundlings
At Shakespeare's Globe, a flag on the roof told London that a play was on, and the cheapest tickets, one penny, were for the open yard where the groundlings stood.
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27Shakespeare's Globe: Boy actors
In Shakespeare's time, women could not act on the public stage, so boys played the women's parts, in long dresses, wigs and make-up.
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28Shakespeare's Globe: The fire of 1613
In 1613, a small stage cannon set the thatched roof of Shakespeare's Globe on fire, and the whole theatre burned to the ground in less than an hour.
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29Shakespeare's Globe: Words from Shakespeare
More than a thousand English words, such as lonely, eyeball and swagger, are first found written down in Shakespeare's plays, though he did not always invent them.
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30Shakespeare's Globe: The new Globe
Shakespeare's Globe in London looks four hundred years old, but it opened in 1997, rebuilt by builders who used oak, wooden pegs and a thatched roof.
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31California Gold Rush: Sutter's Mill
In January 1848, a carpenter building a sawmill on the American River found tiny pieces of gold, and the secret started the California Gold Rush.
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32California Gold Rush: The long journey
In 1849, most gold seekers lived in the east of the United States, and there were three ways to reach California: around Cape Horn, across Panama, or over land in wagons.
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33California Gold Rush: Who got rich?
During the California Gold Rush, most miners did not get rich: the people who sold them pans, shovels and food often did better.
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34California Gold Rush: The first jeans
The first jeans were work trousers made for miners and workers in the American West: a tailor added metal rivets to stop the pockets tearing.
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35California Gold Rush: The Chinese miners
In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese people came to Gold Rush California, which they called Gold Mountain; they paid a special tax, worked in groups, and opened the shops of San Francisco's Chinatown.
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36A 1939 photo of a water cooler marked "Colored" opens the story of the Jim Crow laws, which kept black and white people apart in the south of the United States until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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37On 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks stayed in her bus seat; she was not a tired old lady but a trained activist, and the 381-day bus boycott that followed ended segregation on the city's buses.
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38Segregation: The Little Rock Nine
In 1957, nine black teenagers tried to start the year at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the governor's soldiers stopped them, the president's soldiers walked them in.
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39On 28 August 1963, about 250,000 people marched in Washington for jobs, freedom and equal rights, and Martin Luther King put his notes aside to tell them his dream.
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40Born Malcolm Little, Malcolm X learned words by copying a dictionary in prison, chose a new name, became a famous speaker for black Americans and changed his ideas after a journey to Mecca.
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