Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	The Combe is the podcast that seeks out stories and voices from across Africa
0:05.2	that otherwise might go unheard.
0:07.2	The Com.
0:08.2	Each week we focus on a single story that matters.
0:11.2	The Com.
0:12.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the
0:25.7	past brought to life by those who were there.
0:28.6	Coming up a varied offering for you today, taking the Horsemeat scandal of 2013, which shook confidence in the European
0:35.1	food industry as an illustration, we'll be looking at other historical food scandals.
0:39.8	Also, what it's like to develop narcolepsy apparently as a result of being vaccinated.
0:45.0	I've lost a lot of sleep and it's gone progressively worse every year.
0:51.0	Will I be able to work? Will I be able to support myself?
0:56.0	Plus the secret schools set up for Kosovo Albanians to escape the Serb cultural crackdown in the 1990s, the lasting impact of
1:04.0	impact of French nuclear testing in Algeria in the 1960s
1:08.0	and the miracle on the Hudson told by the last passenger to escape
1:12.0	from a stricken airliner.
1:13.0	On the sudden we stopped, it was eerily quiet.
1:16.0	I looked out the window and I saw lights.
1:19.0	So I knew that I was alive.
1:21.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
1:24.1	But we're going to begin with one of Europe's most damaging recent food safety
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