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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2026 · 1H 3M

Taiwan's White Terror and the making of City of God

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes.This week, we hear about the end of decades-long martial law in Taiwan and discuss its impact on the country's literature with Ti-han Chang, the Deputy Director of Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS University of London.Next, the making of City of God, the film that showed the raw reality of children's gangs in Brazil's favelas.Plus, we remember Ashley Kriel, the young activist who became an anti-apartheid icon on the Cape Flats.We also hear about the first carbon offset scheme that planted millions of trees in Guatemala.We go back 50 years to the first time women played basketball in the Olympic Games.And the birth of Club Med, the resort that pioneered the all-inclusive holiday.Contributors: Fred Chin - former Malaysian student imprisoned during Taiwan's White Terror. Katia Lund - co-director of City of God. Adiel 'Gorie' November - former anti-apartheid activist. Roberto Antonio Alvarado - planted the saplings that became some of the world’s first carbon offsets. Pierre-Xavier Bécret - son of Club Med employees. Juliene Brazinski Simpson - former US basketball player.(Photo: Green Island former prison, Taiwan. Credit: James Wendlinger/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)

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