Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It's 30 years since Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, was stolen from the national gallery in Oslo, Norway. We hear from the man who helped to recover it.
Our expert guest is historian and author, Susan Ronald, who explores the history of art heists in the 20th century.
Plus, a first hand account from Kampala terror attacks in 2010 and the mystery of St Teresa of Avila's severed hand.
Finally, we hear about the last World War II soldier to surrender. Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who spent nearly 30 years in the Philippine jungle, believing World War Two was still going on.
Contributors: Kuddzu Isaac - DJ and Kampala terror attack survivor Charley Hill - Scotland Yard art detective and private investigator Susan Ronald - historian and author Sister Jenifer - the Mother Superior of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Ronda Hiroo Onoda - Japanese WWII soldier Christos and Ioanna Kotsikas - residents of Thessaly, Greece
(Photo: The Scream. Credit: Getty Images)
The History Hour
The History Hour
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
The Iron Curtain
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Black History: The Black Panthers
US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
The Burma protests of 1988
The Arab Spring of 2011
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Attack at the US Capitol
Buddhist on Death Row
75 years of Unesco
Film special
The birth of Bangladesh
The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The fall of Addis Ababa
Disability History special
The world's first woman premier
The Guerrilla Girls
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