Traitors and treachery

Traitors and treachery

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Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. Our guest is cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who tells us more about the history ...  Afficher plus

Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement

We start with the street artist Banksy, and his 2015 dystopian 'bemusement park'.Then, we talk to roller coaster enthusiast Megan MacCausland, from the European Coaster Club. Plus, we go back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the coelacanth, a fish believed to have be ...  Afficher plus

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Britain's secret propaganda war
Witness History: World War Two history

How sex, jazz and 'fake news' were used to undermine the Nazis in World War Two. In 1941, the UK created a top secret propaganda department, the Political Warfare Executive to wage psychological warfare on the German war machine. It was responsible for spreading rumours, generati ...  Afficher plus

La mémoire de la Shoah
Carrefour de l'Europe

Une mémoire qui revient aujourd’hui au cœur de l’actualité avec son instrumentalisation par le président russe Vladimir Poutine qui prétend vouloir « dénazifier » l’Ukraine en lui faisant la guerre. Comment l’Europe a-t-elle étudié son passé et la Shoah ? Y a-t-il toujours des ta ...  Afficher plus

Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Witness History

In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying. They'd been allowed into Britain in an attempt to improve relations, but it was later discovered that they'd been carrying out espionage instead. George Walden was a young diplomat working on th ...  Afficher plus

The Sino-Japanese War
In Our Time: History

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. After several years of rising tension, and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, full-scale war between Japan and China broke out in the summer of 1937. The Japanese captured many major Chinese ports and cities ...  Afficher plus