Sveriges mest populära poddar
The History Hour
Samhälle och kulturPersonliga dagböcker

Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

51 min•15 april 2023

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear about the unearthing of a mass grave in Sernyky, Ukraine, in 1990, and when the Boston Marathon was the target of a terror attack in 2013.

This programme contains distressing details.

Contributors: James Bulgin - head of public history at the Imperial War Museum in Britain. Richard Wright - archaeologist. Jonathan Dimbleby - broadcaster. Edward Deveau - Watertown Chief of Police. Charles Barnett - managing director of Aintree Racecourse. Gary Anderson - designer.

(Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe. Credit: Getty Images)

Fler avsnitt av The History Hour

Visa alla avsnitt av The History Hour
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant
•1 tim 1 min
A papal visit and German reunification
•1 tim 1 min
The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal
•1 tim
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca
•1 tim 1 min
Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK
•1 tim 2 min
Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III
•1 tim
The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome
•1 tim
Italian history
•1 tim 1 min
Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal
•1 tim 1 min
Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy
•1 tim 1 min

The History Hour med BBC World Service finns tillgänglig på flera plattformar. Informationen på denna sida kommer från offentliga podd-flöden.