Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.We hear a survivor's incredible archive account of living through the Siege of Paris in 1870. Sydney Snell was in her 80s when she recorded her memories with the BBC in 1946.Our guest Professor Beatrice Heu ...  Show more

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.American artist Keith Haring's bold 1986 mural on the Berlin Wall and British naturalist Gerald Durrell's 1950s mission to save species from extinction.We discuss other examples of art which aim to bring pe ...  Show more

A woman shares the heartbreaking story of growing up during the Bosnian war and genocide, how her family survived, and how she learned to accept her identity and past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

August 25th: Ramil Safarov Born (1977) One event can alter the course of a person’s entire life. On August 25th 1977 a young man was born and, pretty early in life, was subject to a war between his country and another. A war that lost him family members, forced his move, and alte ...  Show more

Aung San Suu Kyi's recent historic democratic victory in the Myanmar elections seems to have brought positive change for the country but for a whole generation of former child refugees, life was conflict ridden. Burmese born Ngelay Aung Soe fled Myanmar as a child with his fam ...