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The Chindits and USAID
Sep 06, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's episodes of Witness History. The formation of an unconventional special force during the Second World War sparks a discussion about three others around...
Washington DC and a film noir classic
Aug 29, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We learn why the Mount Pleasant riots erupted in Washington DC in 1991, and hear from our guest, ...
BlackBerry phones and Spot the dog
Aug 23, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Jacquie McNish, author and former Senior Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. W...
Indonesian history
Aug 15, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Anne-Lot Hoek, a research fellow at the International Institution of Social Histo...
Nagasaki bomb and Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Aug 09, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Simone Turchetti, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, at The Univers...
Russian revolutionaries and Japan’s record breaking rollercoaster
Aug 01, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Lara Douds, Assistant Professor of Russian history. We start in 1907, the men who ...
Saxophone diplomacy and bulletproof vests
Jul 25, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Natalia Grincheva, an expert in cultural diplomacy from Lasalle, University of th...
Nuclear diplomacy and Italo disco
Jul 19, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dina Esfandiary, Middle East Geo-economics Lead at Bloomberg Economics. We start in ...
The 'trial of the juntas' and Evita’s missing body
Jul 12, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes, all with an Argentine theme. We find out more about the 1985 ‘trial of the juntas’ when the country’s former military leaders...
Dancing in the Street and Ai Weiwei
Jul 05, 2025Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes including the story behind Mick Jagger and David Bowie's duet for Live Aid in 1985 and the Chinese artist who was jailed for hi...