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Escaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba

Published: April 8, 2023, 2 p.m.

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

We hear about the lengths one woman goes to to escape Eritrea, how Zumba was invented by accident and how a giant peace statue on a Japanese island, crumbled into a ghostly ruin.

Plus the arguments then, and the arguments still over the Good Friday Peace Agreement for Northern Ireland, and a picnic for peace that breached the Iron Curtain.

This programme contains descriptions of sexual violence.

Contributors:\\nMartin Plaut - Senior Research Fellow at University of London\\nSemhar Ghebreslassie - Eritrean graduate\\nBeto Perez - Choreographer and inventor of Zumba\\nJane Morrice - Yes campaigner in 1998 referendum on the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement \\nLee Reynolds - No campaigner in 1998 referendum on the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement\\nYusuke Natsukawa - Local resident of Awaji Island\\nGoro Otsubo - IT worker who enjoys visiting weird sites around Japan\\nWalburga Habsburg Douglas - an organiser of the Pan-European picnic

(Photo: Zumba creator Beto Perez. Credit: Getty Images)

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