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Hi and thanks for downloading witness history from the BBC World Service, the stories of our times told by the people who were there.

I'm Lucy Burns and today we're going back to 1984 and the birth of maybe the biggest circus in the world.

This is the story of Circ de Salé.

Today, Circ D'Sellay, is an entertainment juggernaut.

Nearly 200 million people have seen one of their spectacular shows in 450 cities in 60 countries around the world.

But it all started with a few street performers in Quebec.

Jill Sanqua was one of the company's founders

and at the end of the 1970s he was living on a commune in the French

Canadian countryside which had an apple orchard.

We had a lot of apples and one day I said oh maybe you know there would be a better way to pick these apple.

So I figure out that if I had the latter attached to my leg, I would just walk around from three to three picking apples and just passing the basket down.

And I did that.

I took a piece of wood, made a six foot stilt,

and just hang on to the tree to walk,

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