The History Hour

Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

Apr 15, 2023

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Introduction

2min

The Australian's Experience in the War Crimes Trial of Ivan Poliokovich

3min

The Uncovering of a Mass Grave

2min

Madame Kalashnikov and the Soviet Union

2min

The Mass Grave in Ravnam

2min

The Importance of Digging Up the Past

2min

The Reliability of Information About War Crimes

2min

The Importance of First Hand Witnesses in the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

2min

The Belsin Concentration Camp

2min

10.

The Unadorned Facts of the Holocaust

3min

11.

The Belsin Camp

3min

12.

The IRA Bomb Threat at the Grand National in 1997

2min

13.

Watertown's Chief of Police Leads the Hunt

2min

14.

The Boston Marathon Bombers

3min

15.

The Proudest Day in Law Enforcement

2min

16.

Boston Strong and the Brothers Who Failed

2min

17.

The IRA's Campaign for a United Island

2min

18.

The Bomb Scare at the Grand National

2min

19.

The IRA's Coded Bomb Threats to the Grand National

2min

20.

The Unfortunate Night Out

2min

21.

The Importance of Recycled Paper Products

3min

22.

The Mobius Strip

3min

23.

The Importance of Symbols in Architecture

2min

24.

The Universal Recycling Symbol

2min

25.

The History Hour: A History of Recycling

3min

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear about the unearthing of a mass grave in Sernyky, Ukraine, in 1990, and when the Boston Marathon was the target of a terror attack in 2013.

This programme contains distressing details.

Contributors: James Bulgin - head of public history at the Imperial War Museum in Britain. Richard Wright - archaeologist. Jonathan Dimbleby - broadcaster. Edward Deveau - Watertown Chief of Police. Charles Barnett - managing director of Aintree Racecourse. Gary Anderson - designer.

(Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe. Credit: Getty Images)