Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson and the team behind the witness history strand on the world service.

This week the brutal Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

This is the first time I realize what death meant and what war meant.

Plus from 1950s London, the racially motivated murder of one Kelso Cochran.

When one a den said to my husband,

I have a sad news for you.

And when my husband said to the police,

what kind of sad news?

As you said, Kelso. is what kind of sad news?

And with McDonald's pulling out of Russia, we remember the first day they opened in Moscow.

First day we served 34,000 people.

In one day, you know, we had no idea that there'd be that many people.

So we're going full out and then it just never stopped.

That's all coming up later in the podcast. But first to the Philippines where you might say history is repeating itself.

This month Ferdinand Marcos Jr. universally known as Bong Bong, won the presidential election.

He's the son of the former dictator who ruled for more than 20 years,

during which time opposition was crushed and thousands of people were jailed or disappeared.

It was also a kleptocracy, which made the Markos family extremely rich,

remember Emmelda Markos's infamous shoe collection.

But that era came to an end in 1986 when a wave of people power demonstrations

swept Marcos Sr from power. It was a heady time as the leading Filipino novelist Joseph Delise told Kate McGowan.

It's February the 22nd, 1986 and tens of thousands of people are gathering on one of Manila's main thoroughfares,

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