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China's breakthrough malaria cure
FromThe History Hour
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria; the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War that inspired Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five; the fall of Singapore; plus the town that America built in Afghanistan's south-western desert, and 'was Lenin a mushroom' - a satirical re-writing of Soviet history.
Photo: Professor Lang Linfu (Family archives)
Photo: Professor Lang Linfu (Family archives)
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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