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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week\\u2019s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.\\nWe hear about the sinking of a migrant boat off Lampedusa in 2013 which was one of the Mediterranean\\u2019s worst shipwrecks. \\nAlso, we find out about Wally Hendrickson, the US physicist who volunteered to be dropped into the front line of the Vietnam War to remove fuel rods from a reactor.\\nPlus, the opening of the world's first cat cafe in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998.

Contributors:\\nAmnasager Araya who survived the Lampedusa tragedy after being rescued by Vito Fiorino.\\nAnnalisa Camilli, correspondent for Internazionale magazine. \\nWally Hendrickson who removed the fuel rods from the reactor in Vietnam. \\nAndr\\xe9 Turcat, the French pilot of Concorde\\u2019s maiden flight. \\nThe star of the telenovela, Kassandra, Coraima Torres, and Tony Paez who distributed the show. \\nTracy Chang, founder of the first cat cafe in Taiwan.

(Photo: A woman on a boat heading for Lampedusa. Credit: Getty Images)