Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear about Osmondmania! The moment in 1973 when teenage fans of American heartthrobs, The Osmonds, caused a balcony at Heathrow to collapse.

Also, we find out about the first peace walk in Cambodia and how it united a country torn apart by war.

Plus, the birth of Lagos Fashion Week and how it put Nigerian design on the global map.

Contributors: Donny Osmond. Josephine McDermott, BBC producer and presenter. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, organiser of Cambodia’s first peace walk. Parul Akhter, a sewing machinist who survived the Rana Plaza building collapse. Oscar Maynez, a forensic scientist who used to work in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez where hundreds of young women were kidnapped or killed. Paula Flores, the mother of one of the murdered girls. Omoyemi Akerele who organised the first Lagos Fashion Week.

(Photo: Donny Osmond greets fans at Heathrow airport. Credit: George Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive via Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Amazing Sports Stories, Coming Soon to the BBC World Service.
0:04.3	Nothing is ever quite as expected.
0:06.8	Yep, it's wild.
0:08.2	Search for Amazing Sports Stories, wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. Let's do this.
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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:27.2	Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there. Coming up a
0:31.8	1990s peace walk for Cambodia, an event which helped to heal
0:36.2	the nation after the terror of the Khmer Rouge years decades earlier.
0:40.8	I went over to their bowl and with my fingers just threw a bit of water over
0:45.0	them and said, Sunkreyum Japai, which means the war is over. And they wept and I wept.
0:52.0	Also the Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed more than a thousand people, the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh's history.
1:00.0	From the 1990s, Mexico's murdered women when hundreds of young women went missing in a border town,
1:06.0	and how Lagos Fashion Week put Nigerian style on the map.
1:10.0	There's nothing as extraordinary as seen an idea go from notebook to light.
1:17.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast and as you can hear some light and shade in our offerings this week.
1:23.2	And indeed with the somewhat relentlessly grim news agenda of the past week, we thought we'd
1:27.6	begin with a slightly lighter item.
1:30.3	50 years ago, the American heart throbs, themans were pretty much at the top of the pop music tree,
1:36.0	and when they toured Britain in 1973, they were met by hysterical teenagers
1:41.0	as their plane landed at London's Heathrow Airport.
1:44.0	The crowd was so large that a viewing balcony at Heathrow collapsed.
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