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The History Hour: Dassler brothers' rift

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Dassler brothers' rift

01/10/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Dassler brothers' rift

The Dassler brothers' rift, castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos and Jomo Kenyatta's rule

The Dassler brothers' rift, castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos, the unpredictable rule of Kenya's former President, Jomo Kenyatta, the Japanese Schindler and raising the Mary Rose

A collection of this week's Witness History programmes, presented by Max Pearson. The guest is Nicholas Smith, author of "Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers" and Presenter of the BBC's "Sneakernomics" podcast. He explains how footwear revolutionised sport and became high-fashion.

In 1948, two brothers from a small German town called Rudi and Adi Dassler created the sportswear firms Puma and Adidas. Reena Stanton-Sharma hears from Adi Dassler’s daughter, Sigi Dassler, who remembers her father's obsession with footwear and talks about her fondness for the rappers, Run-DMC, who paid tribute to her dad’s shoes in a song.

We also hear about one man's mission to castrate Pablo Escobar's hippos, the unpredictable rule of Kenya's former President, Jomo Kenyatta, the 'Japanese Schindler',  and the raising of the 400-year-old Mary Rose.

(Photo: Adi Dassler. Credit: Brauner/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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