
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


From 1942 to 1964 the US actively encouraged American farmers to hire tens of thousands of migrant workers to come to work legally from Mexico - they were known as 'braceros'; also, when Moscow invited thousands of foreign students to attend an International Youth Festival in the former USSR; a witness to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington; plus Arafat's final weeks and why was JKF's killer allowed to defect to the Soviets?
Photo: A group of Mexican Braceros picking strawberries in a field in the Salinas Valley, California in June 1963 (Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.3
558558 ratings
From 1942 to 1964 the US actively encouraged American farmers to hire tens of thousands of migrant workers to come to work legally from Mexico - they were known as 'braceros'; also, when Moscow invited thousands of foreign students to attend an International Youth Festival in the former USSR; a witness to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington; plus Arafat's final weeks and why was JKF's killer allowed to defect to the Soviets?
Photo: A group of Mexican Braceros picking strawberries in a field in the Salinas Valley, California in June 1963 (Getty Images)

7,893 Listeners

378 Listeners

1,072 Listeners

5,577 Listeners

1,807 Listeners

3,203 Listeners

977 Listeners

1,902 Listeners

1,749 Listeners

1,028 Listeners

1,958 Listeners

581 Listeners

4,806 Listeners

959 Listeners

413 Listeners

747 Listeners

839 Listeners

365 Listeners

476 Listeners

2,738 Listeners

3,230 Listeners

3,365 Listeners

1,011 Listeners