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The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
We hear about the sinking of a migrant boat off Lampedusa in 2013 which was one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks.
Also, we find out about Wally Hendrickson, the US physicist who volunteered to be dropped into the front line of the Vietnam War to remove fuel rods from a reactor.
Plus, the opening of the world's first cat cafe in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998.
Contributors:
Amnasager Araya who survived the Lampedusa tragedy after being rescued by Vito Fiorino.
Annalisa Camilli, correspondent for Internazionale magazine.
Wally Hendrickson who removed the fuel rods from the reactor in Vietnam.
André Turcat, the French pilot of Concorde’s maiden flight.
The star of the telenovela, Kassandra, Coraima Torres, and Tony Paez who distributed the show.
Tracy Chang, founder of the first cat cafe in Taiwan.
(Photo: A woman on a boat heading for Lampedusa. Credit: Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
We hear about the sinking of a migrant boat off Lampedusa in 2013 which was one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks.
Also, we find out about Wally Hendrickson, the US physicist who volunteered to be dropped into the front line of the Vietnam War to remove fuel rods from a reactor.
Plus, the opening of the world's first cat cafe in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998.
Contributors:
Amnasager Araya who survived the Lampedusa tragedy after being rescued by Vito Fiorino.
Annalisa Camilli, correspondent for Internazionale magazine.
Wally Hendrickson who removed the fuel rods from the reactor in Vietnam.
André Turcat, the French pilot of Concorde’s maiden flight.
The star of the telenovela, Kassandra, Coraima Torres, and Tony Paez who distributed the show.
Tracy Chang, founder of the first cat cafe in Taiwan.
(Photo: A woman on a boat heading for Lampedusa. Credit: Getty Images)
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