Max Pearson

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1,342 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The History Hour · The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo · 17 Jan 2026 podcast

This wasn't the height of luxury at the time.

It was for ordinary people.

What was the kitchen like pre the Frankfurt kitchen?

So looking back at the years since the 1920s, would you say that Margarita Schutte-Lihotsky in the developed world has changed the world in the sense that it has given us the new kitchen?

That's the food historian Dr. Annie Gray.

Next, we've got a fascinating first-hand insight into the creation of one of the world's most popular board games, Cluedo.

This is from the early part of the 20th century, when murder mysteries were extremely popular.

But turning the murder mystery format into a board game required a particular type of genius.

Jane Wilkinson has the story.

Marcia Lewis, the daughter of Anthony Pratt, inventor of the board game Cluedo.

She was speaking to Jane Wilkinson.

And if that evocative tale has whetted your appetite, you should look up our episode on the invention of Monopoly.

That's another surprisingly gripping story.

Find it by searching for BBC Witness History and then add the word Monopoly.

Still to come, a survivor of the Venezuelan mudslides of 1999 that left thousands dead.

And from the early 2000s, when the Taliban were not in power, the TV talent show Afghan Star.

Before that, a moment from 1986 which foreshadowed some of the vulnerabilities of the modern world.

This is the story of what's believed to be the world's first virus to infect a personal computer.

As Jill Kersley now tells us, it had its origins in the minds of Computer Geek Brothers in Pakistan.

ZX-80 is a complete computer.

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