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West African food and computer viruses

The History Hour

CHAPTER

The History of Computing

Pope John Paul II returned for a second visit to Nicaragua in 1996. The Sandinistas had been voted out of power and the US-backed Conservative government was in charge. Mike Lanyon heard from Carlos Penske, a protester against the Pope in 1983. Jill Kursley has been hearing how it came from an unlikely source.

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