Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear about the unearthing of a mass grave in Sernyky, Ukraine, in 1990, and when the Boston Marathon was the target of a terror attack in 2013.

This programme contains distressing details.

Contributors: James Bulgin - head of public history at the Imperial War Museum in Britain. Richard Wright - archaeologist. Jonathan Dimbleby - broadcaster. Edward Deveau - Watertown Chief of Police. Charles Barnett - managing director of Aintree Racecourse. Gary Anderson - designer.

(Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	abnormal transactions.
0:03.0	Some kind of cyber attack on a bank.
0:05.0	Tens of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.0	It's a cyber criminal group.
0:10.0	From the BBC World Service,
0:12.0	The Lazarus-Eist is back for season two.
0:14.7	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.1	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:18.8	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service
0:27.6	with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there this
0:31.8	week looking at war and terrorism.
0:34.0	We have the truly shocking reports from the BBC's Richard Dimelby,
0:38.0	the first journalist to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
0:44.0	I have just returned from the Belson concentration camp,
0:48.0	where for two hours I drove slowly about the place in a jeep with the chief doctor of Second Army.
0:55.0	Plus the IRA targeting of the British Grand National Horse Race and the hunt for the Boston Marathon
1:02.2	bombers.
1:02.8	This was about 12.15 in the morning.
1:06.2	Everybody's asleep.
1:08.0	It's usually a very quiet time for our officers and now a gunfight starts. That's all coming up later in the
1:15.4	podcast but we're going to begin in 1990 when the archaeologist Richard
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