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This episode is part two of our two-part miniseries on the space race, so if you haven’t already listened to part one, then I’d suggest that you do, because we go over all of the background and setting for the space race that we’ll be talking about in today’s episode.

Or, if you just want to hear about cool rockets and astronauts, then hang around here!

So, we left off in 1958 last week. The United States Vanguard rocket had just exploded on live TV, several months after the Soviet Union had ran a successful launch, and were now being mercilessly mocked by the USSR in the United Nations.

So, I guess the question that you have to ask yourself, if you’re President Eisenhower and the American leadership, is where do you go from here?

Listen in to find out!

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We’ve got a really exciting topic to get into today, one that was viewed by millions, and in many ways shifted the course of really historic events that would follow in the decades after, even up to today.

Of course, I’m talking about the space race. The battle between the United States and the Soviet Union to get to the moon and beyond.

Over the course of 20 years, these two post-world war two giants slugged it out in order to leave the planet and challenge the new frontier in outer space.

Now, there’s so much to talk about with this topic. There’s all the different missions, the two sides, the historical background, so what I thought would be best was if I split the topic into two parts, or two episodes.

This weeks episode will give you the background to the space race, and the initial launches and introduce some of the main players. Then in next weeks episode I’ll talk about the climax of the space race, and what it’s meant for the world.

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As I mentioned last week, this week’s episode will be a very brief introduction to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1950’s and 60’s.

The struggle for racial equality in the U.S is probably the one that s most well documented, because it was viewed all over the world, and it had a couple of really transcendent characters.

Now, it’s needless to say that it would be impossible to cover every aspect of the struggle for civil rights in this episode. Even if I did 100 episodes, I’d still barely be scratching the surface. So what I’ll try and do today is talk about some of the key events and important people of this era, and maybe I’ll go into more depth on one of them in a future episode.

A reminder, that this topic has been put ahead of some others that were due to come out, in recognition of and in response to the protests surrounding George Floyd’s death in Minnesota. And these serve as a reminder that the struggle for racial equality is far from over.

www.BlackLivesMatter.com 

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For this week’s episode, I thought it would be fun to take a look into what University and higher education life was like in the middle of the 20th Century.

I came to this conclusion for a few different reasons, but the biggest one was that I think it’s a project that I can personally relate to and benefit from.

I myself am currently at University in the UK, so I spend a lot of my time in buildings that have been used for education for well over a century, and walk around the same campus that generations before me have done too.

The tools I use and the lecture halls I sit in have been around for a long time, and I thought it would be nice to learn a little about what it was like in decades previous, and maybe try and understand the people who sat in the same rows as me.

Link: www.BlackLivesMatter.com

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This episode will focus on something that I think a lot of us take for granted, the way that we travel given the amount of technology we have at our disposal today.

Changes in travel haven’t just been limited to the type or speed of travel, but also the amount of people who own and use transportation.

As I’ll talk about, the percentage of the population that own a type of fuel-driven vehicle has dramatically increased since the 1950’s, along with the numbers of people who use transportation for recreation. 

Transport in Asia book: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315739618

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As promised, this episode took on a bit of a more practical approach compared to some of my previous ones.

This week’s topic I made a part of my every day routine, at all hours of every single day, for 7 days.

And that’s clothing!

So for the past 7 days I have been wearing shirts, formal-ish trousers, semi-formal shoes, knit sweaters and even the odd tie or two during the day, and then more traditional pyjamas at night, so kind-of flannel type things.

This week was, very interesting, and my mindset around clothing from the mid 20th Century has really changed, and I think I’m starting to think and feel a lot differently about the ways we dress today on the whole.

An article for high fashion in the '50's: https://vintagedancer.com/1950s/1950s-mens-clothing/

Hello, and welcome back to the rediscovery podcast! For this week’s episode, I wanted to get into the world of exercise and health in the middle of the last century.  It’s been all over the news in the last decade, but especially in the last 5 years, the media has been portraying the image that people in the present are far less healthy than the generations before them.  Is this true? Well, there are a number of studies that indicate that this is indeed the case, pointing to increased rates of obesity, especially among children, and a 2017 study showing that poor diet was now a bigger killer than smoking worldwide.  From what I’ve seen, there seems to be one consistent theme as to why people nowadays are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, obesity and other fitness-related illnesses compared to 50 or 60 years ago.

Link to Neil Howe's article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2017/10/02/youre-not-the-man-your-father-was/#518193288b7f

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For the very first episode of this show, I wanted to dive into something that was quintessentially 1950’s, radio and broadcasting in the mid-20th century.

So, this week, I gave up listening to all music in favour of tuning in to some vintage radio broadcasts.

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On this show, I’m looking to bridge the gap between the generations in an increasingly divided world.

So, as a member of Gen-Z, I’ll be deep diving into some facts of life that were present in the decade’s past, that have been largely been lost among my generation today.

I’ll be finding out for myself, what people my age, got up to, not too long ago, and experiencing them on this podcast. Education, Hobbies, Fashion, Travel and a bunch of things in between.

I won’t bore you for too long, but,  if you think that this sounds like your kind of thing, or you just want to laugh at a young person like me getting things wrong, then follow this show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen from.