⚽⚽⚽ Wonderful to talk about my dad with Matt Pintus for the excellent BBC World Service Sporting Witness podcast

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In 1815 Sarah Baartman, an indigenous South African woman, died after years of performing in European 'freak' shows.

It took nearly 200 years for her remains to be returned home.

Matt Pintus discovers how one woman's poem helped bring it about

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Supermalt is a malt drink that's sold in more than 70 countries worldwide and is especially popular in the UK's African and Caribbean communities.

But did you know its origins lie in Nigeria's civil war?

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📻More than two million people work at sea and they all need feeding. Izzy Greenfield Ruth Alexander and Hannah Bewley have produced a couple of brilliant documentaries about food at sea for BBC World Service.

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This is nine minutes of pure joy from ⁦Matt Pintus⁩ marking 50 years since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest

He speaks to their manager and confirms the group turned down $1bn in 2000 to perform again bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

A fascinating Witness History looking at how they did that Queen 'jumping out of the helicopter' London 2012 skit bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Fifty years ago this month, Swedish group Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo.

Their manager Görel Hanser witnessed the band's meteoric rise to stardom bbc.in/3xabslR

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Lauren Layfield and Shanequa Paris have been announced as the brand-new hosts of Radio 1’s Life Hacks.

The duo will join forces to co-host the weekly show (Sundays, 4pm – 6pm) from Sunday 7 April ✨

Welcome to the Radio 1 family Lauren Layfield & Shanequa Paris 🫶

Witness History on the World Service is a brilliant podcast that gets no publicity at all. Short episodes about the Nazis, the first Labradoodle, Debbie McGee’s role in the Iranian revolution….