Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

I Was There: The New Millennium

Sam Walker looks back at how the world prepared for the third millennium, including efforts to combat the threat posed by the Millennium bug

Sam Walker looks back at how the world prepared for the third millennium, including efforts to combat the threat posed by the Millennium bug, and the construction of one of the most iconic yet controversial buildings commissioned especially for the year 2000, the Millennium Dome. We also asked whether the world got the date of the third millennium wrong - did it actually begin in 2001?

22 minutes

Podcast