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Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis

Speed of Sound and prosecuting Nazis

Nov 15, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is aviation historian Dr Victoria Taylor. We start with an archive interview of America...

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The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy

The largest dinosaur and creating Miffy

Nov 08, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Darja Dankina, who's a palaeontologist from the Natures Research Centre in Vilnius, ...

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Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds

Emerante de Pradines and Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds

Nov 01, 2025

Emerante de Pradines's son, Richard Morse, tells us about his mother’s life and her commitment to de-demonising vodou culture through her music. Haiti expert Kate Hodgson, from University College Cork...

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Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes

Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes

Oct 25, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Sonny Roberts’ daughter tells us about how her father created the UK’s first black-owned music s...

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Nordic Noir and the Moomins

Nordic Noir and the Moomins

Oct 18, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Indian-based author and podcaster Purba Chakraborty talks about the history of fiction writing. ...

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The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two

The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two

Oct 10, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We start with a BBC archive interview where one woman recounts what it was like to survive the e...

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India's nine day tea strike and the birth of the Excel spreadsheet

India's nine day tea strike and the birth of the Excel spreadsheet

Oct 04, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes. Tea expert Sabita Banerji talks about the history of tea in India. We look back at how women teapickers in 2015 fought for jus...

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The origins of Indian cinema and the start of Scouting

The origins of Indian cinema and the start of Scouting

Sep 27, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes taking us from India to Texas. Professor Sunny Singh, author of A Bollywood State of Mind, discusses the origins of Indian cin...

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The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt and Omar Sharif enters the world stage

The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt and Omar Sharif enters the world stage

Sep 20, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes, all with an Egyptian theme. We find out more about the 2014 fight against sexual harassment. And we hear from Professor Nicola...

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Nigeria’s Festac’77 and Gander’s generosity during 9/11

Nigeria’s Festac’77 and Gander’s generosity during 9/11

Sep 12, 2025

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Lucy Durán, a Spanish ethnomusicologist, record producer and Professor at the School...

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