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The Ethiopia Famine
The TV report that alerted the world to starvation in Ethiopia in 1984, plus Turkey and the Kurds, journalists under fire in Nigeria and Brazil and the ill-fated change to Coke's secret recipe.
(Photo: Michael Buerk cradling an Ethiopian child. Credit: BBC)
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Sun 26 Oct 201412:05GMT
BBC World Service Online
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- Sat 25 Oct 201419:05GMTBBC World Service Online
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The History Hour
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes
