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The story of our times told by the people who were there.

This month, we meet the man who saved the dancing bears of Bulgaria  a survivor of the Burmese uprising of 1988 and the engineer who tunnelled through Mont Blanc.

Razia Iqbal presents five moments of history as told by the people who were there.
This month, we meet the man who saved the dancing bears of Bulgaria, a historian caught up in Zimbabwe's great archaeological controversy, a lesbian protestor who stormed the BBC, a survivor of the Burmese uprising of 1988, and the engineer who tunnelled through Mont Blanc


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