The History Hour
The History Hour
BBC World Service
When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
51 minutes Posted Oct 20, 2018 at 1:00 pm.
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A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's forgotten Amazon war, diverting Mount Etna's lava, arguments over aid and trade in the UK, and the 1973 oil crisis.

(Photo: A poster saying 'out of order' is stuck on a Coca Cola vending machine in Mouscron, Belgium in 1999. Credit: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images).