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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave oven, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Desert Island Discs.
On 26 January 1972 four Aboriginal men began a protest outside Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. They erected a beach umbrella on the grass and called it an 'embassy'.
Plus, the murder of five lawyers in Madrid in 1977, which became a turning point in Spain's return to democracy; the invention of the microwave oven; Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; and 75 years of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's longest-running programme, Desert Island Discs.
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