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Matt Pintus

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🎙I present Witness History and Sporting Witness on @bbcworldservice

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📢📢📢 Lauren Layfield and Shanequa Paris have been announced as the brand-new hosts of Radio 1’s Life Hacks. The duo will join forces to co-host the weekly show (Sundays, 4pm – 6pm) from Sunday 7 April ✨ Welcome to the Radio 1 family Lauren Layfield & Shanequa Paris 🫶

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Lauren Layfield and Shanequa Paris have been announced as the brand-new hosts of Radio 1’s Life Hacks.

The duo will join forces to co-host the weekly show (Sundays, 4pm – 6pm) from Sunday 7 April ✨

Welcome to the Radio 1 family <a href="/LaurenLayfield/">Lauren Layfield</a> &amp; <a href="/ShanequaParis/">Shanequa Paris</a> 🫶
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Fifty years ago this month, Swedish group Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo. Their manager Görel Hanser witnessed the band's meteoric rise to stardom bbc.in/3xabslR

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A fascinating Witness History looking at how they did that Queen 'jumping out of the helicopter' London 2012 skit bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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This is nine minutes of pure joy from ⁦Matt Pintus⁩ marking 50 years since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest He speaks to their manager and confirms the group turned down $1bn in 2000 to perform again bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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📻More than two million people work at sea and they all need feeding. Izzy Greenfield Ruth Alexander and Hannah Bewley have produced a couple of brilliant documentaries about food at sea for BBC World Service. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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Supermalt is a malt drink that's sold in more than 70 countries worldwide and is especially popular in the UK's African and Caribbean communities. But did you know its origins lie in Nigeria's civil war? Hear more on Witness History 🎧 bbc.in/3QaKGk8

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In 1815 Sarah Baartman, an indigenous South African woman, died after years of performing in European "freak" shows. It took nearly 200 years for her remains to be returned home. Matt Pintus discovers how one woman's poem helped bring it about bbc.in/3w6rNI7

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‘I have come to take you home, home!’ In 2002, Sarah Baartman was returned to South Africa after 200 years away. Sarah's body had been exhibited in a French museum. Diana Ferrus shares how her poem helped bring Sarah home. Witness History | Listen on BBC Sounds

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🚨Did you know there’s record numbers of homeless kids in the UK right now? Some are in cockroach infested temporary accommodation, some have to wake up 5 hours before school to get there on time. They share their story with me and BBC Newsround. 📺 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

🚨Did you know there’s record numbers of homeless kids in the UK right now? Some are in cockroach infested temporary accommodation, some have to wake up 5 hours before school to get there on time. They share their story with me and <a href="/BBCNewsround/">BBC Newsround</a>. 📺 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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I enjoyed yesterday's Witness History on the impact La Haine made when it hit cinemas in 1995. One of the most important films ever made that still knocks you out almost 30 years later Matt Pintus bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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It’s 35 years since hip-hop group Public Enemy released the song Fight the Power. Frontman Chuck D shares his memories of how filmmaker Spike Lee asked them to write an anthem for his 1989 movie Do the Right Thing 🎶 bbc.in/4cqzE33

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It's 40 years since photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant published the "graffiti bible". Subway Art was an era-defining book about the early graffiti movement that had exploded in New York in the 1970s and '80s. Download Witness History 🎧 bbc.in/4eLeJcV