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World Service,31 Jul 2021,23 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode five

The Documentary

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Our journey into the emoji universe takes some surprising directions. We reveal some of the human stories behind those tiny pictures on our screens. From the early days of reggae in Kingston, Jamaica to San Francisco’s Chinatown, we meet some of the people responsible for the emojis we have today.

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