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The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley

We hear about Vietnam's manicure godfather, how Bengaluru became India's Silicon Valley and how the first ever photograph from a mobile phone was sent.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service.

We hear about Vietnam's manicure godfather, how Bengaluru became India's Silicon Valley and how the first ever photograph from a mobile phone was sent.

Plus, the popularity of theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, and the windmill that revolutionised wind power.

Contributors:

Tuong Vu - Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.
Kien Nguyen - Wife of Minh Nguyen.
Narayana Murthy - Founder of Infosys.
Philippe Kahn - Software engineer and owner of world's first mobile phone photo.
Peter Guzzardi - Publisher and editor.
Britta Jensen - Teacher.

(Photo: Minh and Kien Nguyen outside beauty school in California. Credit: Kien Nguyen)

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Mon 3 Apr 2023 23:06GMT

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