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Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week
The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated
Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Why oil prices spiralled in 1973, plus Amoco Cadiz, one of the world’s largest oil spills
The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
The sinking of a migrant boat 10 years ago, and the world's first cat cafe in Taiwan.
Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Adolf Hitler’s order to sterilise people, and the ‘world’s most annoying instrument’
Israeli and Palestinian history
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
The 1973 military coup in Chile and Zanzibar’s ‘golden grandmother of music’
Historic Korean summit and goat island
The first inter-Korean summit in 50 years and the Mexican island overrun by goats
Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the first Rose of Tralee
The Celtic Tiger, the first Rose of Tralee and activist swimmers in Dublin.