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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
Our guest is Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, a historian of spaceflight at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, USA.
We start with the founding of Malaysia's space agency in 2002, and a competition to find the country's first astronaut.
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
We learn about how the James Bond film Spectre inspired Mexico City’s first Day of the Dead parade in 2016.
Our guest, Professor Erica Borgstrom, takes us around the world to learn how death is celebrated in different cultures.
Plus, how one woman survived Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2...
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 Heuser, from the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, Germany, explains ...
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 peace and unity around the world with Dr Lucy Weir, head of art history at the Univers...
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
We hear about the tests on baby rhesus monkeys which would become some of the most controversial in modern science. Also, the chimpanzee who apparently learned American sign language.
Our guest zoologist Megan McCubbin discusses how ethics around using animals in e...