You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know, I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from

satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.

So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Mike Lanchin. Today we're going back to 2009 when a young transgender sex worker and activist

was murdered in Honduras. Vicky Hernandez was killed on the first night of a military-led coup against the civilian government

there.

Although her killers were never identified or punished, her murder did lead to important legal

changes for LGBT people in the Central American nation.

Gunshots are still reverberating around the capital of Honduras hours after Central America's first

military coup since the Cold War.

In an early morning raid, President Manuel Zelaya was taken from his bed in his

bajamas by soldiers who flew him to Costa Rica.

Soldiers outside the presidential palace push back journalists, eager to find out what was going on. It's the morning of June 29th 2009, the morning after the military coup.

There's been a night curfew in place with police officers and soldiers

patrolling the streets. At home in the sprawling industrial city of San Pedro

Sula in the north of Honduras.

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