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Cyprus: Coups and clubbing
Jul 19, 2024We hear Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot perspectives on the island's 1974 coup and subsequent invasion. Bekir Azgun, a Turkish-Cypriot writer, remembers the events. On the 20 July 1974 Captain Adam...
Brazil's ban on women in football and the first air fryer
Jul 13, 2024We hear about the law in Brazil which made it illegal for women and girls to play football for 40 years. Dilma Mendes shares her incredible experience of being arrested numerous times as a child, jus...
Subway Art and terror in Georgia
Jul 05, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes. We hear about the era-defining book Subway Art and how Fight the Power became a protest anthem. Artist curator Marianne Voslo...
The Sagrada Família and Hello Kitty
Jun 28, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes. We hear the story of the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world and the creation of one of the most recognisable char...
Bungee jumping and the Benidorm boom
Jun 21, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service on the history of travel. Our guest is Dr. Susan Houge Mackenzie, Associate Professor in the Depart...
Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria and the Irish shopworkers strike
Jun 14, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. First, we hear about Boko Haram militants driving into Gwoza in north-east Nigeria in 2014, to beg...
The weather report that delayed D-Day and panda-mania in Taiwan
Jun 07, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. First, we hear how a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin Sweeney drew up a weather report that ...
South American revolutionaries and the first Aboriginal MP
May 31, 2024A warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners - this programme contains the names and voices of people who have died. Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History e...
The first Air Jordan and Imelda Marcos's 3,000 pairs of shoes
May 24, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. This week’s programmes are all about the history of footwear. First we take a trip back to the 196...
Independence in French Polynesia and the 'Queen of Cuba'
May 17, 2024Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. This week, we hear how nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia. Plus, the story of ho...