Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Ongama Mtimka, lecturer in South African politics at the Nelson Mandela University. He tells us about Mandela's life and legacy 10 years on from his death.
We start with with Mandela's daughter, Makaziwe, describing her relationship with her father and planning his funeral. Then, the brother of Emanuela Orlandi describes his lifelong mission to unravel the mystery of her disappearance in Rome in 1983.
The second half of the programme has a Russian flavour. A relative of Tsar Nicholas II describes the murder of the Romanov royal family in 1918. Then a Russian journalist describes attending the Romanov's controversial reburial 80 years later. We finish with one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova.
Contributors: Dr Ongama Mtimka - Lecturer in South African politics at the Nelson Mandela University. Dr Phumla Makaziwe Mandela - Nelson Mandela's daughter. Pietro Orlandi - Emanuela Orlandi's brother. Olga Romanov - Great niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Lilia Dubovaya - Journalist who was at the reburial of the Romanovs. Era Korobova - Art historian and expert on Anna Akhmatova.
(Photo: Nelson Mandela. Credit: Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty Images)
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Storming the Stasi HQ
The Computers for Schools revolution
The book that warned of an end to civilisation
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Romanian revolution
The Cuban writer who defied Castro
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
Britain's secret propaganda war
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The fall of the Berlin Wall
An environmental history special
Black British history
The birth of the People's Republic of China
Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Cambridge spy network
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
The outbreak of World War Two
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