Tracey Emin
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534 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Jan
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Witness history.
He brought in a fully storyboarded idea about how the Queen would arrive by jumping out of a helicopter.
And we all said, that's brilliant, but it's never going to happen.
Hello and welcome to the History Hour from the BBC World Service with me, Max Pearson.
This week's people and events as featured on Witness History, the past brought to life by those who were there.
Coming up, it's 110 years since the horrors of the Battle of Gallipoli.
I was on the beach the first time I was really under fire and it was just like a shower of rain coming into the sea.
It seemed to be the fans who were acting as rescuers.
They were carrying them out and laying them on the pitch.
I could see people trying to resuscitate people.
Plus the artist Dame Tracey Emin on her famous bed, and from Japan, the origins of the world's longest-running animated TV show.
I never imagined it would run this long.
It has gone on not only for 10 years, but 55 years.
That's all coming up later, but first, a moment from the past which cemented in the global consciousness a very particular style of Latin American literature.
In 1982, Isabel Allende published her debut novel, The House of the Spirits.
It made her name, and she's now one of the most widely read Spanish language authors in history.
Ben Henderson has the story, starting in Chile's capital, Santiago, in the 1940s.
My grandmother and three other women, they would sit around this very heavy oak table and call the spirits.
They were experimenting also with telepathy and trying to move objects without touching them.
Telepathy was funny because the Morla sisters lived in the other end of the city and they would send each other kitchen recipes telepathically.
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