Brazil's ban on women in football and the first air fryer

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We hear about the law in Brazil which made it illegal for women and girls to play football for 40 years.

Dilma Mendes shares her incredible experience of being arrested numerous times as a child, just for kicking a ball. Our guest, Alexandra Allred, herself a pioneering sportswomen, discusses the discrimination women have faced to break into competitive sport.

Plus, the moment when the 'Queen of Salsa', banned from Cuba by Fidel Castro, was allowed to return to Cuban territory for one performance.

We learn about the brutal crushing of a student movement in 1968 in Mexico City 10 days before the Olympic Games, which ended in dozens being killed.

Also, the start of an environmental movement in Italy in 1988, and the invention of the air fryer. The prototype was nearly as big as a dog kennel and made of wood and aluminium.

Contributors: Dilma Mendes - defied Brazil's ban on women playing football. Alexandra Allred - author of When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World. Omer Pardillo Cid - manager and close friend of Celia Cruz. David Huerta - witness to the Mexico City massacre in 1968. Rosa Porcu - a protester against the 'poison ships' docked in Italy in 1988. Suus van der Weij - daughter of Fred van der Weij, inventor of the air fryer.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:09.8	the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:13.0	Coming up, a massacre of students just days before Mexico's Olympic Games in 1968.
0:18.0	The military just surrounded the square.
0:20.0	It was an oblong, really, and there were gaps in it and the soldiers just
0:24.4	went in and fired across I mean they could have been shooting one another quite frankly
0:28.8	also the Queen of Salza's brief returned to Cuba in 1990 after being exiled by Fidjan. She could bear sleep the first night,
0:35.0	she could bear sleep the first night thinking and appreciating the
0:39.3	smell of the Cuban countryside.
0:41.2	Looking at the mountains and the palm trees in the horizon, she said,
0:44.0	it's been 30 years without seeing a royal palm.
0:47.0	And the birth of the air friar.
0:50.0	The fries, they were still frozen, but the tips were burned and they were kind of half
0:55.6	floppy, half frozen, all sweaty. They were disgusting. That's all coming up later in the
1:02.2	podcast, but before that that the last few weeks have
1:04.9	witnessed something of a footy fest in various parts of the world. There's been the
1:09.6	Copper America in South America, the European Championships in Europe, all helping to put the world's
1:16.0	love for the beautiful game in the spotlight.
1:18.8	So much for the men's game.
1:21.1	Last year also saw the Women's World Cup and next year sees the Women's Euros as the
1:25.8	Women's Game continues to grow. But that progress has come despite some extraordinary prejudice
1:31.6	over many decades. In some countries it has even been
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