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Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

You'll hear the story of how a protest led by…

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Food

Stories about the history of food, including the creation of ciabatta bread by a rally driver in Italy in 1982 and the Maltese bakers' strike in 1977…

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90 years of the BBC World Service

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

Sir Trevor McDonald reflects on the BBC's fir…

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District Six and daredevils

The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in Cape Town, by the South African apartheid regime and the man who jumped from s…

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Referendums and Teletubbies

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

We go to Quebec in 1995 when voters went to t…

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Contested islands and Miss World protests

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

We hear from a man who was aged six when he w…

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Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, recou…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Arabian Peninsula

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes, which focus on the Arabian Peninsula to mark the star…

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Racist raids, protests and a political assassination

A collection of Witness History episodes, presented by Max Pearson. We look at how racism led to raids in the 1970s and protests in the 1980s in New …

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The best Championship Manager player ever

A collection of Witness History episodes, looking at how young men in Africa have been exploited through football and and sex-selective abortion in I…

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