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

Podcast: The History Hour · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-08-08

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...