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Dinosaur discoveries and a Berlin Wall treehouse
Aug 05, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about a prehistoric discovery in India - a nest full of dinosaur eggs found in 1982. Plus...
West African food and computer viruses
Jul 28, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Ozoz Sokoh, Nigerian food writer and author of the Kitchen Butterfly food blog, who t...
Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
Jul 21, 2023Max Pearson presents a compilation of stories from this week’s Witness History episodes. In the autumn of 1945, World War II surrender ceremonies took place across the Japanese Empire. Thousands of pe...
Five great inventions that changed the world
Jul 14, 2023Max Pearson presents a selection of this week’s Witness History stories. In 1999, Aibo: the world's first robot dog, hit the shops in Japan and sold out in just 20 minutes. We hear from Toshitada Doi...
Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
Jul 07, 2023Max Pearson presents a selection of this week’s Witness History stories. In 1972, tourists arrived in the Maldives for the first time. We hear from one of the people who made it happen, plus analysis ...
South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Jun 30, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories. In 1995, the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in the South Korean capital, Seoul, killed and injured hundreds of peop...
Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
Jun 24, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, a fighter pilot in the Somali air force defied orders to bomb civilians in 1988. Explaining more about t...
Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Jun 16, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories. We focus on some of the world’s best known photographs - and the photographers who took them. We find out why Lee Miller was...
Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Jun 09, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History and Sporting Witness stories. We hear about the Inuit children taken away from their homes and culture, to be educated in Canadian citi...
Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Jun 02, 2023Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes focusing on Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. It's 70 years since Edmund Hillary with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, b...