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🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria and the opening of a refugee camp for Syrians fleeing the civil war. Plus, how lynching was finally outlawed in America, the opening of the Sydney Opera House and the Queen's coronation.
PHOTO: A UN inspector at work in Ghouta, Syria in August 2013 (Reuters)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC with Max Pearson and the team behind |
0:04.7 | the Witness History Strand on the World Service. |
0:07.7 | This week, lynching in the US has only recently been made a crime, but we meet the brave campaigners of more than a century ago. |
0:15.0 | I personally think she was fueled by rage and decided that she was going to expose this incredible level of injustice regardless of the danger. |
0:27.2 | And marking the Queen's platinum Jubilee, we get the inside track on her coronation 70 years ago. There's a photograph of us or the Queen, |
0:35.0 | and we're also putting our legs in the air. |
0:37.0 | It all looks so natural and happy. |
0:40.0 | We were all so relieved that nothing had gone wrong. That's coming up later in the |
0:44.3 | podcast but we're going to start by focusing on Syria. It's a little over a decade |
0:49.2 | since what's become known as the Arab Spring prompted an uprising against President Basha-Al-Assad. |
0:54.6 | It's estimated that around half a million people have died in the resulting civil war. |
0:59.6 | We'll be hearing about one of the most shocking incidents, a chemical weapons attack in a moment, but first |
1:04.9 | those who have not died but have had their lives thrown into chaos by the war. |
1:09.9 | It's 10 years since the Zaturi refugee camp was set up in neighbouring Jordan to take in the thousands |
1:15.5 | of people fleeing Syria. |
1:17.3 | It's now the biggest camp for Syrian refugees. |
1:20.3 | Laura Jones has been hearing from a family who arrived in 2013 and Laura is here now Laura. |
1:25.2 | Yeah we secured access to the huge Zattery camp through Oxfam and then colleagues from BBC Arabic went into the camp for us |
1:32.1 | to help tell Maada and her daughter |
1:34.5 | Halima's story and this starts with the BBC's Lee's duet who was at the |
1:38.8 | opening of the camp ten years ago we'll hear more from Lees after this. |
1:42.0 | The opening of the first official refugee camp for Syrians, |
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