BBC Sounds - 1922: The Birth of Now

An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.

Einstein's ideas about time and parallels with the indigenous Australian conception of it.

Luigi Pirandello's 1922 play Henry IV and the idea that truth can be we what we say it is.

Hōshō, the first aircraft carrier, and HMS Queen Elizabeth, the most recent.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the first vampire film and its influence after a century

The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, sparking Egyptomania, that continues.

An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.

Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago in 1922 a move with profound influence

Bertolt Brecht's play Drums in the Night and the concept of alienation in the theatre

The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun, China's first modernist work of literature

The Criterion, in which the seminal modernist poem The Waste Land first appeared.

The Shabolovka Tower and The Gherkin

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