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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service about the Vietnam War and the invention of the hugely popular mobile phone game, Snake.
Don Anderson, a former BBC TV reporter during the final days of Vietnam, discusses the atmosphere in Saigon as the North Vietnamese forces closed in.
We also hear about the network of tunnels in the south of the country which Viet Cong guerrillas built during the fighting.
Finally, the former president of the European Commission and two-time prime minister of Italy, Romano Prodi on steering through the ten-state expansion of the European Union in 2004.
Contributors:
Le Van Lang - a Viet Cong veteran.
Dr Xuan Dung Tran - a doctor in the South Vietnamese Marines.
Don Anderson - former BBC TV reporter.
Phạm Chi Lan - economist at Vietnam’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Romano Prodi - former president of the European Commission and two-time prime minister of Italy.
Taneli Armanto - mobile phone game Snake, inventor.
(Photo: Viet Cong soldier inside the Cu Chi tunnels. Credit: Dirck Halstead/Getty Images)
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service about the Vietnam War and the invention of the hugely popular mobile phone game, Snake.
Don Anderson, a former BBC TV reporter during the final days of Vietnam, discusses the atmosphere in Saigon as the North Vietnamese forces closed in.
We also hear about the network of tunnels in the south of the country which Viet Cong guerrillas built during the fighting.
Finally, the former president of the European Commission and two-time prime minister of Italy, Romano Prodi on steering through the ten-state expansion of the European Union in 2004.
Contributors:
Le Van Lang - a Viet Cong veteran.
Dr Xuan Dung Tran - a doctor in the South Vietnamese Marines.
Don Anderson - former BBC TV reporter.
Phạm Chi Lan - economist at Vietnam’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Romano Prodi - former president of the European Commission and two-time prime minister of Italy.
Taneli Armanto - mobile phone game Snake, inventor.
(Photo: Viet Cong soldier inside the Cu Chi tunnels. Credit: Dirck Halstead/Getty Images)
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