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 from the 1990s, a clash between fishermen and conservationists around the Galapagos Islands.

We fishermen need to catch fish.

That's what we do.

That's how we make a living.

We didn't know it at the time, but we were sitting on a gold mine.

Plus, Trans Rights in 1970s Indonesia.

When I was 13 years old, my parents tortured me because of my deviant behaviors that they thought were embarrassing, but my desire to be more feminine

didn't die, it only burned brighter.

Also the assassination of the UN's first ever Middle East peace mediator and the trees that survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

People said that no plants would grow here for the next 75 years.

They thought Hiroshima was dead. But when people saw the green buds emerge, they

thought they could survive too. But first, in this novel pandemic world, we're going

back to one of the lesser known pandemics of the 20th century.

There's been quite a lot of coverage in recent weeks looking back to the truly devastating

Spanish flu outbreak in 1918, 1919, which killed upward of 50 million people.

We've also been reminded of the 1968 pandemic, known as Hong Kong flu, which killed around

a million people.

But in between those two events, in 1957, a new strain of flu emerged from East Asia and spread around the world killing

more than a million people. That outbreak is much less well known and reported.

Gabriela Jones has been listening to archive accounts from the time and speaking to one woman who survived the illness.

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