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A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

    Chinese history

    Chinese history

    Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
    To mark 50 years since the discovery of the Terracotta Army, we're exploring modern Chinese history.
    We hear from the man who helped to modernise the Chinese language by creating a new writing system. It's called Pinyin and it used the Roman alphabet to help simplify Chinese characters into words.
    Our expert guest is the writer, Mark O'Neill, whose book 'The Man Who Made China a Literate Nation' forms the basis of a great discussion about historical language changes throughout history.
    Plus, a first hand experience of life in labour camps during Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution and the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial army during the 1930s. This programme contains disturbing content.
    Contributors:
    Mark O'Neill - writer
    Zhou Youguang - linguist
    Jingyu Li - victim of Mao Zedong's labour camps
    Peng Zhuying - survivor of sexual slavery
    Yuan Zhongyi - archaeologist
    Dr Li Xiuzhen - archaeologist
    Simon Napier-Bell - manager of Wham
    (Photo: Terracotta Army. Credit: Getty Images)

    • 52 Min.
    Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion

    Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion

    First, we go back to 1992, when off the coast of Ireland, a Swiss geology student accidentally discovered the longest set of footprints made by the first four-legged animals to walk on earth.
    They pointed to a new date for the key milestone in evolution, when the first amphibians left the water 385 million years ago.
    Dr Frankie Dunn, who is a senior researcher in palaeobiology at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the UK, then dives into landmark discoveries in geological history.
    Plus, the story of Winifred Atwell, a classically-trained pianist from Trinidad who was admired by Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Elton John. She became one of the best-selling artists of the 1950s in the UK.
    Then, how the Guarani, an indigenous language of South America, was designated an official language in Paraguay’s new constitution, alongside Spanish.
    Also, the lesser known last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944.
    Finally, Indian badminton player Rajeev Bagga who has won 14 gold medals at the Deaflympics. In 2001, he was given the ‘Deaflympian of the Century’ award.
    Contributors:
    Iwan Stössel - Swiss Geologist.
    Dr Frankie Dunn - Senior Researcher in Palaeobiology at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the UK.
    David Olivera - Paraguayan Linguist and Anthropologist.
    Angelina Formisano - Evacuated from the village of San Sebastiano during the 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
    Rajeev Bagga - Indian Badminton Player.
    (Picture: Illustration of a tetrapod from the Late Devonian period. Credit: Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library)

    • 52 Min.
    Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution

    Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution

    Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
    We first hear about Uruguay’s tale of David v Goliath - when a tobacco giant took South America's second-smallest country to court over its anti-smoking laws.
    Uruguay’s former public health minister María Julia Muñoz describes the significance of the ban and its fallout.
    And we shed some light on the wider history of the use of tobacco, its long and controversial history, with Dr Sarah Inskip, a bio-archaeologist at the University of Leicester in the UK.
    Plus, the largest search operation in aviation history - ten years on, little is known of the fate of MH370 and the 239 people on board.
    Also, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe on how her sewing school in northern Uganda served as a place of rehabilitation for child soldiers escaping Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army.
    Then, the Carnation Revolution - how Europe’s longest-surviving authoritarian regime was toppled in a day, with barely a drop of blood spilled.
    Finally, in August and September 1939, tens of thousands of children began to be evacuated from Paris. Colette Martel, who was nine at the time, describes how a pair of clogs made her feel welcome.
    Contributors:
    María Julia Muñoz - Uruguay’s former public health minister.
    Dr Sarah Inskip - A bio-archaeologist at the University of Leicester in the UK.
    Ghyslain Wattrelos - Whose wife and two children were on flight MH370.
    Adelino Gomes - Witness of the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
    Colette Martel - Child evacuee in World War Two.
    (Photo: An anti-tobacco installation in Montevideo. Credit: Reuters/ Pablo La Rosa)

    • 51 Min.
    Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan

    Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan

    Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We first hear about a bloodless war between Denmark and Canada, that involved whisky.
    In 1984, the two nations were disputing the ownership of the tiny Hans Island, just off the coast of Greenland. It might be the friendliest territorial dispute ever.
    We hear from Tom Hoyem and Alan Kessel, politicians on either side.
    And we have historian Ditte Melitha Kristensen, from the National Museum and Archives of Greenland, to shed some light on the history of the country.
    Plus, how Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovered the richest tomb ever found in the America’s: the final resting place of the ancient ruler, the Lord of Sipan.
    Also, we go back to the 1960s when 1,500 Torah scrolls appeared at a synagogue in London.
    And a Crimea double-bill. We go back to 2014 when Russia annexed the Ukranian peninsula, and then back to the 1980s, when it was used as a holiday camp for children across the Soviet Union.
    Contributors:
    Tom Hoyem— Minister for Greenland in Denmark.
    Alan Kessel— Assistant Deputy Minister for Legal Affairs in Canada.
    Ditte Melitha Kristensen — Greenland historian.
    Walter Alva— Archaeologist.
    Phillippa Bernard — Founder member of Westminster Synagogue.
    Maria Kim Espeland — One of the thousands of children who visited the Artek holiday camp.
    (Photo: Greenland. Credit: Thomas Traasdashi/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

    • 51 Min.
    Skiing and two-headed dogs

    Skiing and two-headed dogs

    Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about the famous ski resort, Whistler Blackcomb.
    In 2003, the venue won its bid to host the Winter Olympic Games for the first time. Hugh Smythe, known as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Whistler, has been sharing his memories of the mountain. We also have former Winter Olympian and BBC presenter, Chemmy Alcott, to walk us through the long history of skiing.
    Plus, how the tiny island nation of American Samoa suffered the worst defeat ever in international football.
    Also, the shocking creation of a two-headed dog by a Soviet scientist.
    The murder of transgender woman in Honduras during a military coup in 2009.
    And, a long-running dispute over the final resting place of Christopher Columbus’ ashes.
    Contributors:
    Hugh Smythe — One of the ‘founding fathers’ of Whistler.
    Chemmy Alcott — Former Winter Olympian and TV presenter.
    Nicky Salapu—American Samoa goalkeeper.
    Igor Konstantinov — Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon.
    Claudia Spelman — LGBT activist.
    Angelita Baeyens — Human rights lawyer.
    Samuel Bisono — Tour guide and historian.
    (Photo: Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    • 52 Min.
    Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions

    Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions

    Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
    We hear about the Juliet Club in Verona, Italy. The club has been replying to mail addressed to Shakespeare’s tragic heroine, Juliet since the early 1990s.
    Professor Lisa Bitel talks about the traditions of Valentine’s Day.
    Plus, how the small Irish town of Gort became known as ‘Little Brazil’ because it's home to so many Brazilians. The World War Two escape line that fooled the Nazis and the stadium disaster that shocked Egypt.
    And the story of the food supplement used by soldiers during the Nigerian civil war that became a drink enjoyed in more than 70 countries around the world.
    Contributors:
    Giovanna Tamassia - daughter of Giulio Tamassia, one of the founders of the Juliet Club.
    Professor Lisa Bitel - Professor of History & Religion at the University of Southern California, USA.
    Lucimeire Trindade – resident of Gort, Ireland.
    Keith Janes – son of captured a British soldier.
    Christine Lepers – daughter of a French resistance fighter.
    Mahmoud Al-Khawaga – former footballer with Zamalek.
    Peter Rasmussen – creator of the drink Supermalt.
    (Photo: Giovanna Tamassia from the Juliet Club. Credit: Leonello Bertolucci/Getty Images)

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