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Tsunamis and Caster Semenya
Dec 23, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. This week, we hear from Lumepa Hald who survived the devastating tsunami that hit Samoa in 2009 bu...
Mandela's funeral and Tsar's reburial
Dec 16, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Ongama Mtimka, lecturer in South African politics at the Nelson Mandela University...
Doom and Danish brains
Dec 09, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about two of the most influential computer games of the 1990s with their creators. John Ro...
Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids
Dec 02, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. This week, the bird that defied extinction. In 1969, a Peruvian farmer Gustavo Del Solar received...
Zambia celebrates independence and the invention of bubble tea
Nov 25, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. This week, we’re looking at the birth of a new African nation – Zambia - in 1964, and find out how...
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Nov 18, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Jenni Barclay from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She tells us ab...
Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
Nov 11, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear from Zoheb Hassen, one half of a sibling duo from Pakistan who topped the charts in coun...
Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Nov 04, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Tony Kapcia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham's Centre for Research...
Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Oct 27, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear from activist and actor Memet Ali Alabora on how his social media post contributed to the ...
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Oct 20, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about Osmondmania! The moment in 1973 when teenage fans of American heartthrobs, The Osmon...