Max Pearson
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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Witness history from the BBC World Service.
Hello and welcome to the History Hour with me, Max Pearson.
That's Professor Saha Salim from Cairo University.
Colm Flynn has been in Pisa to hear from one of the engineers who helped to stabilise the world-famous landmark.
Nepal is governed by the so-called party-less panchayat system.
It's a pyramid organisation with five different levels of local and regional councils and the power of royal veto at the top.
In Kathmandu, the king has the power to nominate his own members and, in practice, the power to overrule all their decisions.
His opponents say that the present system is inefficient and corrupt.
Rebecca Moktan was speaking to Durga Thapa, an activist in Nepal's 1990 democracy movement.
One of those children was Carol Janis, and he told Luis Hidalgo the story.
Marcel Duchamp died in Paris in 1968.
Anyway, every nation on the planet has the right to try to qualify for the finals, and that means that sometimes tiny countries come up against almost insurmountable odds.
At least he has a world record, letting in the most goals in a World Cup qualifier.
He'd been accidentally caught in fishermen's nets in the early 1980s, but he lived for decades in an aquarium until a campaign to release him back into the wild ocean.
The Argentine marine biologist Alejandro Sabidet was speaking to Megan Jones and recording the story of Jorge the loggerhead turtle.
The History Hour · The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant · 4 Apr 2026
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Most people who come here for a long weekend come to try the new Nordic cuisine.
It's taken the world by storm.
Yes, it's moss and buds, flowers and bark, berries and leaves.
The San Pellegrino World's Best Restaurant 2010 is Noma!
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