You're listening to the History Hour Podcast this week with me Rebecca Kessby.

Usually we take you back in time through the eyes of people that were there.

This week we've been taking an animal's eye view of the past and looking at how we humans are affected by them.

Coming up, how did a swarm of locusts fly 5,000 kilometers from Africa to the Caribbean?

There were just so many insects flying all over the place and landing on buildings, on cars, on people.

What happened during Australia's war on rabbits?

To say that the ground literally moved isn't an exaggeration.

The rabbits were that thick and there was that many of them.

And a terrifying encounter with a great white shark.

I looked down and there coming up towards me through bright pink blood

was this great big head and these big white teeth.

That's all to come, but where else could we begin a program on animals than with man and

women's best friend because it's acknowledged in societies all over the world

that the loyal dog has a special relationship with humans and here is an inspiring tale

that seems to prove that Simon Watts has been hearing how a guide dog,

Rosel, led her blind owner to safety

when he was caught up in the chaos and terror

of the 9-11 attacks in New York back in 2001.

Simon's been speaking to Michael Hingsen.

As we come on air, we have serious news of a major possible air crash in the United States. A plane appears to have crashed into

one of New York's tallest buildings.

On the morning of September the 11th, 2001, Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the World Trade

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