Indonesian’s independence and the last Olympic art competition

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We hear about the founding father of Indonesian independence.

Then, we look at how 'spray on skin' was used after the 2002 Bali bombings.

Next, we hear about the last ever Olympic art competition.

Plus, the most decorated Paralympian in history.

And, the Brazilian singer who earned the title Queen of Samba.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness interviews. Our guest is Professor of Indonesian history, Kirsten Shulze from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contributors:

Kartika Soekarno – Sukarno’s youngest daughter.

Professor Kirsten Shulze - London School of Economics and Political Science.

Professor Fiona Wood – Burns specialist.

Daniel Weinzweig – John Weinzweig’s son.

Trischa Zorn-Hudson – Paralympian.

Adelzon Alves – Broadcaster and samba record producer.

(Photo: Sukarno. Credit: Christian Hirous/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:09.2	Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there. This week, a Burns expert who saved
0:16.0	lives after the 2002 barley bombings.
0:19.5	You could take a little piece of skin that wasn't injured, take it to the laboratory and grow skin into sheets
0:26.0	that would cover much larger areas was just something that was marvelous to me.
0:31.5	With the Olympics still fresh in our minds, from 1948 the winner of an
0:36.3	Arts Olympic Medal. His first reaction was to say that well he ran a hundred
0:41.5	yard dash with the piano on his back because people didn't realize
0:45.6	that there were arts events so that was his little joke.
0:49.5	Plus the most decorated Paralympian in history and the Brazilian singer known as the Queen of
0:55.4	Samba. The highlight was the beauty of her voice and a very unique voice.
0:59.7	That's what's behind her big success. Clade really stood out and she became kind of a myth.
1:05.6	That's all coming up later in the podcast, but we're going to begin with stories from Indonesia,
1:10.5	a vast sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands.
1:15.0	It was on the morning of the 17th of August, 1945,
1:19.0	that the Indonesian Nationalist leader Sukarno
1:22.0	broadcast a statement declaring independence.
1:25.9	The announcement marked the culmination of years of struggle against Dutch colonial rule, which
1:30.9	had lasted for more than three centuries.
1:33.0	Sukano's youngest daughter, Kartika Sukano, has been telling Matt Pintus about that journey to
1:38.8	independence, which began with the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War.
1:44.0	I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government
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