It is like cracking open fortune cookies. Just as you never know what message will tumble out, you cannot guess what events each of the BBC History Hour podcasts will cover. So far I have heard about the Challenger disaster, The miners' strike in the UK, Rupert Murdoch and the strike by the print unions, the 1968 Thalidomide trial in Germany, the 1991airlifting of 15000 Ethiopian Jews by the Israelis, the 'Hands Across America' campaign in the US, an account by a Chechen rebel of a negotiation in Kremlin, the imposing of the Sharia law in a village in Nigeria and the setting up of Australia's first British penal colony. Quite a trip, huh?

It's like going back and forth in time. And I am loving every minute of it :-)