2024-09-21
51 分钟Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes. We start our programme looking at the discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur by Joan Wiffen. Our expert guest is Professor Eugenia Gold, a paleontologist at Suffolk University, in Boston, United States, and the author of children’s book She Found Fossils. Then, we hear how the CT scanner was invented. Following that, we go to India in 1994 and an outbreak of the pneumonic plague. Plus, the story of how a small group of mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage landmarks in Leningrad during World War Two. Finally, we hear from designer Ruth Kedar about how she came to create one of the most famous logos in history. Contributors: Chris Wiffen – son of late fossil-hunter Joan Wiffen. Professor Eugenia Gold – paleontologist at Suffolk University, Boston, United States. Robert Cormack – son of late CT scanner inventor, Allan Cormack. Doctor Vibha Marfatia – who escaped the pneumonic plague. Mikhail Bobrov – late mountaineer who helped save Leningrad’s landmarks. Ruth Kedar - designer of the Google logo. (Photo: Theropod dinosaur. Credit: Science Photo Library)
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With me, Max Pearson.
The past brought to life by those who were there this week, a medical breakthrough which has helped save millions of lives, the invention of the CT scanner.
Many of the radiologists didn't seem to grasp the point, and I remember reporting back that we would be lucky to make about 20 of these machines, plus how Leningrad's landmarks were camouflaged while under german siege in the second World War.
The story behind Google's iconic logo, and from 30 years ago, an outbreak of plague that terrified India.
The thing I remember is waking up to banging on the door.
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