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The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie
Jan 24, 2026Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest Sugandhi Jayaraman, lecturer in air transport management at the University of Westminst...
The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo
Jan 17, 2026Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is food historian Dr Annie Gray. She discusses the impact of the first modern, fitted k...
The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed
Jan 10, 2026Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This programme contains distressing details. Our guest is Bárbara Fernández Melleda, Assistant Pr...
The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging
Jan 03, 2026Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Barbara Keys, a specialist in US history at Durham University. We start w...
The history of toys
Dec 27, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We learn about how Play-Doh evolved from a cleaning product to a childhood favourite and the creat...
Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas
Dec 20, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. Our gue...
Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement
Dec 13, 2025We start with the street artist Banksy, and his 2015 dystopian 'bemusement park'. Then, we talk to roller coaster enthusiast Megan MacCausland, from the European Coaster Club. Plus, we go back throug...
Nigerian history
Dec 06, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes, all with a Nigerian theme. We hear two personal stories of the Biafra war, which began in 1967, including the writer...
Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral
Nov 29, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is literature lecturer Dr Hetta Howes on major literary hoaxes around the world. We hea...
Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain and ending the Bosnian war
Nov 22, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Mercedes Peñalba- Sotorrío, a senior lecturer in modern European history at Manchest...