The History Hour

Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson


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Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

These include memories of the horsemeat scandal of 2013 from the man who uncovered what was happening. We'll hear analysis of other historical food scandals from expert Professor Saskia van Ruth.

Plus the last passenger off the plane, which landed on the Hudson river in 2009, shares his story.

Also on the programme: secret schools for Kosovar Albanians, nuclear testing in Algeria and teenagers with narcolepsy in Sweden.

Contributors:

Professor Alan Reilly - former Chief Executive of the Irish Food Safety Authority
Professor Saskia van Ruth - expert on food authenticity and integrity of supply networks, based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Christopher Tyvi - lives with narcolepsy
Abdelkrim Touhami - lives near former nuclear testing site in Algeria
Linda Gusia - former student of Kosovo house schools
Professor Drita Halimi - former Kosovo house school teacher
Dave Sanderson - last passenger off US Airways flight 1549

(Photo: Raw burgers. Credit: Getty Images)

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