Sulawesi's historic cave art and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Podcast: The History Hour · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-10-03

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr. April Nowell, a paleolithic archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria in Canada. We start by hearing how in 2012, archaeologists on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi made a discovery that changed our understanding of early human history. Next, we're in the UK in 1957, as the final touches are made to what was then the largest radio telescope in the world: Jodrell Bank. Plus, how the contraceptive pill was...