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90 years of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ World Service

Sir Trevor McDonald reflects on the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's first black producer, Una Marson, and her legacy in the development of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Caribbean Service.

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ World Service.

Sir Trevor McDonald reflects on the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's first black producer, Una Marson, and her legacy in the development of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Caribbean Service.

Also, how the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ managed to broadcast through the Iron Curtain, Colombia's false positives scandal and the incredible rescue of 33 miners trapped in Chile.

(Photo: Sir Trevor McDonald. Credit: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ)

Contributors:
Sir Trevor McDonald, Una Marson, Debbie Ransome and Neil Nunes - Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ presenters
Bridget Kendall - the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s former Moscow correspondent
Peter Udell - the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's former controller of European Services
Jacqueline Castillo - whose brother was a victim of the 'false positives' scandal
Dr Aslan Doukaev - university teacher when the first Chechen war started
Mario Sepulveda - Chilean mine disaster survivor

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51 minutes

Last on

Tue 27 Dec 2022 03:06GMT

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