What Really Happened in the Nineties?

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Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.

Cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. And it happened in the '90s.

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What Really Happened in the Nineties?: Omnibus 2

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Robert Carlyle travels back to the '90s to see how forgotten events reshaped our world. A second chance to hear some of this week's episodes.

Here we are in 2022 navigating cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics, war in Europe.

How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. That the world we live in was shaped by the forgotten decade: the 1990s.

From Hong Kong to Iraq, Cool Britannia to 'No Frills' flights, we travel back in time to key moments in the '90s that reverberate today in unexpected ways.

In this Omnibus edition we hear a selection of this week's episodes

Presenter Robert Carlyle
Music and Sound Design Phil Channell
Producer Neil McCarthy

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