
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Sarah Ward, a maritime archaeologist from the Australian National University. We start with the discovery of the sunken Terra Nova, Scott of the Antartic's ship.We hear from the Danish food entrepeneur Claus Meyer - a driving force behind New Nordic Cuisine.Then, the long journey that finally took Picasso's Guernica to Spain.Plus, the Chinese pharmacist who invented the e-cigarette.And, the life of Echo the elephant - the star of the world's longest-running study of wild elephants in Kenya.Finally, "fan man" James Miller and boxing's most bizarre night.Contributors: Leighton Rolley - oceanographer.Dr Sarah Ward - maritime archaeologist from the Australian National University. Claus Meyer - Danish food entrepeneur.Ambassador Rafael Fernandez-Quintanilla - Spanish diplomat (from BBC archive).Hon Lik - inventor of the e-cigarette.Dr Cynthia Moss - founder of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project.Marc Ratner - former representative of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.(Photo: The Terra Nova held up in the pack, Antarctica, 1910. Credit: Herbert Ponting/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)
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