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The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
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Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 1
🌴 Summer mode, nostalgia maxed outWe’re hitting pause on the weekly time machine to bring you a sun-soaked sampler platter of the most unhinged, delightful and ‘I can’t believe that actually happened’ moments from this year’s T Mi...
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Episode 48
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Cronulla Riots 20 years on, through the eyes of someone who lived it
Rewind to 11 December 2005 to 17 December 2005🏖️ Cronulla hits boiling pointThis week in 2005, Australia watches in shock as long-simmering tensions in Cronulla erupt into one of the country’s most confronting racial...
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Season 5
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Episode 47
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Two Aussies, one Nobel Prize and a wild self-experiment
Rewind to 4 December 2005 to 10 December 2005🧪 Two Aussies, one Nobel and a beaker of bacteriaOn a snowy Stockholm night, Dr Robin Warren and Professor Barry Marshall rewrite medical history — and humiliate decades o...
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Season 5
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Episode 46
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Cyber Monday: The Marketing Stunt That Actually Worked
Rewind to 27 November 2005 to 3 December 2005🧬 A new face, a new futureIn France, surgeons pull off the world’s first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire — a 15-hour medical marathon involving nerves...
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Season 5
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Episode 45
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When the Xbox 360 took over the world… and overheated doing it
🇩🇪 Merkel makes historyAngela Merkel is sworn in as Germany’s first female chancellor and first from the former East. A grand coalition deal ends the election deadlock. Quiet power beats loud politics.🎈 Candy meets physics<...
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Season 5
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Episode 44
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