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The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Icelandic volcano eruption stops European air travel in 2010 and inventing the EpiPen

Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Aleida Guevara on being a doctor in Angola's civil war and Jane Seymour on Fashion Aid

Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.

Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week

The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated

Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Why oil prices spiralled in 1973, plus Amoco Cadiz, one of the world’s largest oil spills

The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
The sinking of a migrant boat 10 years ago, and the world's first cat cafe in Taiwan.

Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Adolf Hitler’s order to sterilise people, and the ‘world’s most annoying instrument’

Israeli and Palestinian history
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.