Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
This week, the bird that defied extinction. In 1969, a Peruvian farmer Gustavo Del Solar received an unusual assignment - finding a bird called the white-winged guan that had been regarded as extinct for a century.
The American author and conservationist Michelle Nijhuis is this week's guest. She talks about some of the most interesting attempts in modern history to save animals on the brink of extinction.
Also this week, the world's first solar powered home, when Tanzania adopted Swahili and when the world went crazy for Cabbage Patch Kids.
Contributors: Rafael Del Solar - son of conservationist Gustavo Del Solar Michelle Nijhuis - author and conservationist Meredith Ludwig - friend of Cabbage Patch Kids creator Martha Nelson Thomas Peter Baxter and George Kling - scientists Walter Bgoya - author in Tanzania Andrew Nemethy - lived in the world's first solar powered house
(Photo: A whooping crane. Credit: Getty Images)
The Kindertransport children
The return of the wolf
The division of Kashmir
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Exploring space
Kenya's ivory inferno
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
The Stonewall riot
The assassination of Medgar Evers
The first anti-psychotic drug
D-Day
Tiananmen Square
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The war on drugs
The Malayan Emergency
The al Yamamah arms deals
The Columbine school shooting
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