Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the forced internment of more than a hundred thousand Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

We could only take what we would be able to carry in a suitcase.

We didn't know how long we would be gone.

Plus, a British theatrical group that toured the Sahara in the 1970s, the real life author

behind the Mary Poppins story, and from the 1960s how it came about that we all now need computer passwords.

Please type a number up to six digits with decimal point.

Want to pick one?

I think of one I know the answer to do. I'm about 49.

49? Okay.

That's coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin with a potentially terrifying moment

from the early 21st century when the world was in a state of general anxiety

following the Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. These were followed

by President George W Bush's so-called War on Terror, which in turn had the effect of turning many people in a variety of countries against the US.

So it was that in late December 2001, a 28-year-old British man, tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoe on a transatlantic

flight from Paris to Miami.

Mike Lanchin has been hearing from one of the passengers who helped to overcome Richard Reed, the man known as the

shoe bomber.

Good afternoon.

The FBI is questioning a man who tried to blow up a transatlantic passenger jet with

explosives hidden in one of his shoes. The plane was on its way from France to the

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