BBC Radio 4: Archive on 4: Fangirls and Teen Hysteria

Donny Osmond says the type of fan hysteria The Osmonds experienced could never happen now. Josephine McDermott traces the history of teen fans to see if he’s right.

BBC Radio 4: Witness History: When the Queen ‘jumped out of a helicopter’

Frank Cottrell-Boyce describes the scene he wrote for the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games in which the Queen appeared to jump out of a helicopter.

BBC World Service: Witness History: Castrating Pablo Escobar’s hippos

In 2007 hippos were found 100km from the abandoned ranch where the dead drug kingpin Pablo Escobar had kept them. Vet Carlos Valderrama was called in to perform a castration.

BBC Radio 4: Witness History: Japan Surrenders in China

John Stanfield, now 103, recalls how he signed the Japanese surrender documents on behalf of the British in a ceremony at the Forbidden City in Beijing in the autumn of 1945.

BBC World Service: Jane Seymour ‘marries’ Freddie Mercury

In 1985 some of the biggest names in fashion and music joined together for Fashion Aid. The actress Jane Seymour shares what it was like being rock star Freddie Mercury’s bride.

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BBC World Service: Witness History: Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bath

Vogue’s war correspondent Lee Miller found herself in Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment when the news broke that he was dead.