Podcast Episodes
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Ilaria Favretto, Affiliate Profess…
3 years, 7 months ago
Popes
It has been 10 years since Pope Benedict XVI announced his shock resignation. It was the first time in almost 600 years that a pope had stepped down.…
3 years, 7 months ago
Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce
The launch of the first black music station in Europe - the Dread Broadcasting Corporation in London in 1981 - and why Czechoslovakia split into the …
3 years, 7 months ago
The death penalty and broadcasting bans
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Chiara Sangiorgio, Death Penalty A…
3 years, 8 months ago
Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.
These include memories of the horsemeat scand…
3 years, 8 months ago
Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers
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 marine biologi…
3 years, 8 months ago
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…
3 years, 8 months ago
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…
3 years, 9 months ago
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…
3 years, 9 months ago
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…
3 years, 9 months ago