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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
First, we hear about Boko Haram militants driving into Gwoza in north-east Nigeria in 2014, to begin an assault which left hundreds dead.
Next, the Irish shopworkers who went on strike after refusing to handle South African goods.
Then, it’s 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian state TV station in Belgrade.
Plus, Norway’s biggest industrial disaster.
And, Brazil’s iconic egg-shaped telephone booth.
Contributors:
Ruoyah who lived through the Boko Haram massacre.
Makena Micheni - Associate Lecturer at St Andrews University.
Irish shopworker Mary Manning.
TV technician Dragan Šuković.
Harry Vike and his wife Greta.
Chu Ming Silveira’s son Alan Chu.
(Photo: A woman from Gwoza displaced by the violence. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
First, we hear how a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin Sweeney drew up a weather report that delayed the date of D-Day.
Then, 99-year-old former field medic, Charles Norman Shay, shares his remarkable account of landing on the Normandy beach in France codenamed Omaha on D-Day.
Next, we also talk to Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi who hurled his shoes at the President of the United States.
Plus, we hear about China gifting Taiwan two giant pandas, in a practice known as ‘panda diplomacy’.
Finally, it’s the 40th anniversary of the popular computer game Tetris being invented.
Contributors:
Edward Sweeney – Maureen Flavin Sweeney’s son.Charles Norman Shay – former field medic in the United States Army.Muntadhar al-Zaidi – Iraqi journalist.Eve Chen – curator of the Giant Panda House at Taipei Zoo. Alexey Pajitnov – Russian engineer.Henk Rogers – American businessman.
(Photo: U.S Troops rushing to the Normandy beaches. Credit: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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A warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners - this programme contains the names and voices of people who have died.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
First, the story of Brazil's most wanted, Carlos Lamarca. He was a captain who deserted the army in the 1960s and joined in the armed struggle against the military regime in the country.
Then, Bill Booth - historian of twentieth century Latin America at University College London - joins Max to talk about other revolutionary figures from South America.
Next, the story of Australia's first Aboriginal MP and how he fought for indigenous rights.
Plus, the 90th anniversary of the first ever quintuplets, the 1984 Apple commercial that changed advertising and the 2014 Flint, Michigan water contamination crisis.
Contributors:João Salgado Lopes - friend of Carlos Lamarca.Bill Booth - historian of twentieth century Latin America at University College London.Joanna Lindgren - great niece of Neville Bonner.Jeneyah McDonald - Flint, Michigan resident.Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha – a paediatrician and professor of public health, Michigan.Mike Murray - former Apple marketing manager.
(Photo: Subcomandante Marcos pictured in 2001. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
This week’s programmes are all about the history of footwear.
First we take a trip back to the 1960’s when Brazilians were introduced to a new type of footwear, which went on to become one of the country’s biggest exports.
Plus the story of how a then rookie basketball player called Michael Jordan signed a deal with Nike that revolutionised sports marketing.
We also hear about the thousands of shoes owned by the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
Then we learn how one family feud led to the creation of two massive sportswear companies, Adidas and Puma.
Finally, we hear how a Czech company revolutionised shoe production and brought affordable footwear to the world.
Contributors:Sergio Sanchez - Author and former employee of Havainas.Sonny Vaccaro - Former Nike executive. Dr Alex Sherlock – Lecturer in the school of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and founder of the Footwear Research Network.Sigi Dassler – Daughter of Adi Dassler the founder of Adidas.Mick Pinion – Former Bata engineer.
(Photo: Air Jordan Original. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
This week, we hear how nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia.
Plus, the story of how the FBI caught Ana Montes, the spy known as the ‘Queen of Cuba’.
We also talk to Jewish and Palestinian people about the moment the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948.
Finally, we tell the unlikely story of how a heavy metal rock band emerged during the violent years of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
Contributors: Antony Géros - President of the Assembly of French PolynesiaKDee Aimiti Ma'ia'i – doctoral candidate at University of OxfordPete Lapp – former FBI agentHasan HammamiArieh HandlerZipporah PorathFiras Al-Lateef – bass player
(Photo: Antony Géros. Credit: Getty Images)
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This week, how more than one billion people living in India were given a unique digital ID during the world's largest biometric project. The Aadhaar scheme was launched in 2009 but it wasn't without controversy. Our guest, digital identity expert Dr Edgar Whitley, tells us about the history of ID schemes around the world.
Plus, the Spanish doctor whose pioneering surgery helped millions of people to get rid of their glasses and see more clearly. And why East Germany's thirst for caffeine in the 1980s led to an unusual collaboration with Vietnam.
Also, the story behind one of the most famous royal photographs ever taken – Princess Diana sitting alone on a bench in front of the Taj Mahal in 1992. The man who took the image tells us more.
And finally, how a Ghanaian athlete, Alice Annum, earned the nickname ‘Baby Jet’ after her medal-winning success in the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
Contributors:Nandan Nilekani - former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of IndiaDr Edgar Whitley - digital identity expert at the London School of EconomicsDr Carmen Barraquer Coll – daughter of ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer MonerSiegfried Kaulfuß – East German official in charge of coffee production in VietnamAnwar Hussein – royal photographerAlice Annum – retired Ghanaian athlete
(Photo: Scanning fingerprints for Aadhaar registration. Credit: David Talukdar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
This week we hear the story of Rogelio Goiburu, who has dedicated his life to finding the victims of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay, including the remains of his own father. Our expert Dr Francesca Lessa talks about other enforced disappearances in South America.
Plus, we hear about how, in February 2014, ordinary people got to see inside Mezhyhirya, the extraordinarily extravagant home of Ukraine's former president.
Also, a shocking psychological experiment from the 1960s. Just to warn you, this includes original recordings of the experiments which listeners may find disturbing.
The programme also includes the breakthrough moment when the Channel Tunnel was finally completed linking England and France beneath the sea and, finally, the story behind one of the world's most popular self-help books.
Contributors:Rogelio Goiburu - dedicated to finding the victims of Stroessner's ParaguayDr Francesca Lessa - Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas at University College London (UCL)Denys Tarakhkotelyk - from the Mezhyhirya estateGraham Fagg - the Englishman who broke through the Channel TunnelDonna Dale Carnegie - daughter of Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People(Photo: Alfredo Stroessner. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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It’s been thirty years since the first fully democratic elections in South Africa, which saw the African National Congress take power in 1994.
But two years before that historic moment, white South Africans had to vote in a referendum that would decide whether or not to usher in a multi-racial government. We hear from President FW de Klerk’s then communications officer about how they helped “close the book on apartheid.”
Then we journey back to 1976 and hear about the Soweto Uprising, a student led protest against the enforced study of Afrikaans. Bongi Mkhabela who helped organise the peaceful march, tells us how it came to a bloody and tragic end.
Plus we take a look at the pivotal role played by women and girls in the lead up to the 1994 elections. Journalist and researcher Shanthini Naidoo tells us why women’s work and activism in the ANC is so often overlooked.
We hear from Oliver Tambo’s son about his father’s return to South Africa after 30 years in exile.
We also hear about the long overdue return of Sarah Baartman’s remains to South Africa, after over 190 years being kept in Europe, where she suffered horrific abuse while she was alive. This programme contains discriminatory language.
And finally, we learn about one of South Africa’s biggest popstars Brenda Fassie, from her friend, rival and admirer Yvonne Chaka Chaka.
Contributors: David Stewards – President FW de Klerk’s former communications advisorBongi Mkhabela- Student organiser of the Soweto uprising Shanthini Naidoo- Journalist and researcher on women during apartheid Dali Tambo- Son of Oliver Tambo Diana Ferrus – Poet who helped bring Sarah Baartman homeYvonne Chaka Chaka- South African popstar
(Photo: Nelson Mandela after winning the election in 1994. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It’s 10 years since the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola started in West Africa. We hear from a survivor and discuss the legacy of the epidemic with the BBC's global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar.
Plus, the first World War Two battalion to be led by an African-American woman. Major Charity Adams’ son tells her story.
We hear about the group of men arrested in Egypt in 2001 at a gay nightclub who became known as the Cairo 52.
We also hear about the avalanche on Mount Everest which killed 16 sherpas carrying supplies 10 years ago.
Finally, the train service between India and Bangladesh that lay dormant for 43 years which rumbled back into life in 2008.
Contributors:
Yusuf Kabba – an Ebola survivor from Sierra LeoneTulip Mazumdar - the BBC's Global Heath reporter. Stanley Earley – son of Major Charity AdamsOmer (a pseudonym) - arrested and imprisoned at a gay club in CairoLakpa Rita Sherpa - helped recover bodies after the avalanche on Mount Everest in 2014Dr Azad Chowdhury – on the inaugural Friendship Express
(Photo: Liberian Health Minister Burnice Dahn washes her hands at a holding centre for Ebola patients in 2014. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It's 30 years since Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, was stolen from the national gallery in Oslo, Norway. We hear from the man who helped to recover it.
Our expert guest is historian and author, Susan Ronald, who explores the history of art heists in the 20th century.
Plus, a first hand account from Kampala terror attacks in 2010 and the mystery of St Teresa of Avila's severed hand.
Finally, we hear about the last World War II soldier to surrender. Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who spent nearly 30 years in the Philippine jungle, believing World War Two was still going on.
Contributors:Kuddzu Isaac - DJ and Kampala terror attack survivorCharley Hill - Scotland Yard art detective and private investigatorSusan Ronald - historian and authorSister Jenifer - the Mother Superior of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, RondaHiroo Onoda - Japanese WWII soldierChristos and Ioanna Kotsikas - residents of Thessaly, Greece
(Photo: The Scream. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It has been 50 years since Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, so we're exploring Swedish history. Also in 1974, Sweden became the first country in the world to offer paid parental leave that was gender neutral. One father who took the leave tells us about this pioneering policy. We hear from one of the inventors of Bluetooth. The technology was named after Harald Bluetooth, a Viking king. Our expert guest is Eva Krutmeijer, Swedish science writer and co-author of the book ' Innovation, the Swedish Way’.
Plus, the invention of the three-point safety belt for cars, that is estimated to have saved more than one million lives around the world, and the story behind Sweden’s Cinnamon Bun Day. Finally, 1974 was just the beginning for the Swedish quartet, Abba, who shared their name with a herring company. By the end of the decade, they were one of most recognisable music acts of the 20th century. Contributors:Per Edlund - one of the first fathers in his town to take split paid parental leaveSven Mattison - one of the inventors of BluetoothEva Krutmeijer - Swedish science writer and co-author of the book 'Innovation, the Swedish Way'Gunnar Ornmark - stepson of Nils Bohlin who invented the three-point safety belt for carsKaeth Gardestedt - who came up with the idea of Sweden's Cinnamon Bun DayGörel Hanser - manager of Abba (Photo: Abba in 1974. Credit: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)
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It's 75 years since the founding of Nato. In 1949, a group of 12 countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to block the expansion of the Soviet Union.
Professor Sten Rynning, the author of Nato: From Cold War to Ukraine, talks about some of the most significant moments in Nato's history.
It's 30 years since the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. We hear from one of the survivors, Antoinette Mutabazi. This programme contains disturbing content.
Plus, Riyaz Begum reflects on Britain's Mirpuri migration, Janet Heimlich, daughter of Dr Henry Heimlich talks about the origins of the Heimlich Manoeuvre and Adam Trimingham, Brighton based journalist and nudist David Johnson recall the arrival of Britain's first nudist beach.
(Photo: British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signs the North Atlantic Treaty. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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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 - writerZhou Youguang - linguistJingyu Li - victim of Mao Zedong's labour campsPeng Zhuying - survivor of sexual slaveryYuan Zhongyi - archaeologistDr Li Xiuzhen - archaeologistSimon Napier-Bell - manager of Wham
(Photo: Terracotta Army. Credit: Getty Images)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service telling stories about inspirational black women.
In 1973, the Battle of Versailles pit up-and-coming American designers using black models against the more traditional French. We hear from Bethann Hardison, one of those black models, about how the capital of couture, Paris, became the stage for this defining moment in the history of fashion.
Professor Adrienne Jones, a fashion expert at the Pratt Insitute in New York, explains the cultural significance of the event, and what changed in the world of fashion afterwards.
Plus, the story of the UK’s first luxury Afro-Caribbean hair salon, Splinters, which opened as recently as the 1980s. Charlotte Mensah, known as the ‘Queen of the ‘fro’, recalls what it was like to work there. Part of her story includes an account racial bullying.
Also, archive interviews tell the story of how Rosa Parks defied racist segregation laws in the United States. It contains outdated and offensive language.
We hear how a Nigerian lawyer took on the country’s Sharia courts to overturn a death sentence.
And the tragic story of Lucha Reyes, one of Peru’s most beloved singers.
Contributors: Bethann Hardison- a model who competed in the Battle of Versailles. Prof Adrienne Jones- from the Pratt Institute in New York. Hauwa Ibrahim- one of the first female lawyers from northern Nigeria. Polo Bances- saxophonist who played alongside Lucha Reyes.
(Photo: Bethann Hardison and Armina Warsuma arriving in France. Credit: Photo by Michel Maurou/Reginald Gray/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
We hear about Cyberia - the first commercial internet café which opened in London in 1994. Director of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, Professor Vicki Nash, talks us through other notable landmarks in the internet’s history. Plus how the Covid N95 mask was invented by a scientist from Taiwan in 1992.
Also how Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff was punished for his writing on liberation theology. Staying with Brazil, we hear how poor rural workers occupied land owned by the rich, resulting in violent clashes in 1980.
And the world's first global seed vault, buried deep inside a mountain on an Arctic island.
Contributors:Eva Pascoe – a founder of Cyberia internet caféProf Vicki Nash – Director of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of OxfordPeter Tsai – inventor of N95 maskLeonardo Boff – Brazilian theologianMaria Salete Campigotto – Landless Workers Movement protestorDr Cary Fowler – founder of Doomsday seed vault
(Photo: People using Cyberia in 1994. Credit: Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)
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