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Just one long thing. Listen first on BBC Sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Vicky

Foncombe. I'm taking you back to the 1950s and the story of

the kiwi fruit. How did New Zealand hijack a Chinese fruit and turn it into one of their biggest agricultural exports.

One of their biggest agricultural exports.

Have live a simple thing with plenty of lovely whipped cream on top.

Putting kiwifruit on top of Pavlava is the most magnificent and attractive looking dessert that you could ever imagine.

Don Turner is a man who knows his kiwi fruits.

His family firm, Turner's and growers,

were one of the first companies to start exporting them

from New Zealand to the US in the 1950s.

But back then, the hairy fruit went by another name, the Chinese Guisbury.

As the name suggests, it originally came from China,

where it was called the Mihotow, which translates as macaque fruit

because monkeys love to chomp on it.

Head teacher Isabel Fraser is the person responsible for introducing the fruit to New Zealand.

She brought home seeds after visiting Christian missionary schools in China in

1904. They were then planted by a nursery man called Alexander Allison and the vines first

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