The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision

Podcast: The History Hour · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-05-16

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We start with the launch of Expedition Robinson in Sweden in 1997 and discuss how reality TV began around the world with our guest Misha Kavka, Professor of Cross-Media Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Plus, a Norwegian Sami protest song that made history in 1980, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigated residential schools and the uncovering a lost burial ground in Brazil in 1996. Also, the 'sporting miracle' of 5,000-to-one outsiders Leicester City FC winning the English Pr...