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)
Cambodian genocide trials
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
The Syrian civil war
Artists who made history
The Marcos regime in the Philippines
The war in Transnistria
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Algeria's War of Independence
The Falkands War
Protesting against Putin
Ukrainian history special
Women who made history
Russia under Putin
LGBT history special
The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Kazakhstan's new capital
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
The rise of Boko Haram
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
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