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The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
Oct 13, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear from Kwasi Okoh about how his mother Theodosia Okoh designed Ghana’s flag after it became ...
Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Oct 06, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. To mark 50 years since the global oil crisis, we’re focusing on oil - from discovery to disaster....
The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Sep 29, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about the sinking of a migrant boat off Lampedusa in 2013 which was one of the Mediterrane...
Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Sep 22, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about the people with disabilities who were sterilised in Germany following an order in 19...
Israeli and Palestinian history
Sep 15, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. It's thirty years since the Oslo Accords were signed. This agreement in 1993 aimed to bring abou...
The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
Sep 09, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear from Chilean politician Hermógenes Pérez de Arce, who helped oust President Allende in 19...
Historic Korean summit and goat island
Sep 01, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Jean H. Lee, an American journalist who has covered both North and South Korea exten...
Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the first Rose of Tralee
Aug 25, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of Witness History stories from the BBC World Service, this week we are focusing on Irish history. In 2006, Ireland’s economic boom, known as the Celtic Tiger, ended...
Judy Garland's legacy and the Benin Bronzes
Aug 18, 2023A compilation of this week's Witness History episodes. Gerald Clarke, the author of Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, speaks to Max Pearson about the legacy of the stage and screen actress who died...
Presidential diamonds and Tupperware parties
Aug 11, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories from the BBC World Service. Journalist Claude Angeli discovered French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing received diamond...