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Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Apr 15, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
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)
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)
Released:
Apr 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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