Podcast appearances and mentions of Alan Johnston

Forty years ago, on 23 April 1985, Coca-Cola decided to change the secret formula of its fizzy drink, in a bid to be market leaders. They launched a new flavour called ‘New Coke'. But, after a public backlash and thousands of angry calls, bosses were forced to act and bring back the old recipe. In 2011, author Mark Pendergrast spoke to Alan Johnston about the change. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic' and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy's Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they've had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America's occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.(Photo: Coca-Cola. Credit: Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG via Getty Images)

When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans in 1976, they were gunned down by the police.The killings sparked a cycle of protests across the country against the racist apartheid regime.In 2010, march organiser Bongi Mkhabela told Alan Johnston about her memories of the Soweto uprising.(Photo: Protestors on the march. Credit: Bongani Mnguni/CityPress/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

David and Alan are with Martyn this week to look back at a seismic winter in the history of football. The Bosman Ruling changed the transfer market forever just before Home Office red tape thwarted a move that could have changed Rangers history. Gazza and referees, 'Andy Goram broke his heart', Alan Johnston running riot and Walter Smith leading a drunken conga around Covent Garden are all on the agenda plus a lot more. This episode was first aired on Tuesday 8 Nov 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The coup of 1953 changed the course of Iranian history. The USA - with British help - overthrew a nationalist prime minister and installed the Shah in power. In 2010, Alan Johnston heard archive recordings of the CIA officer who played a part and spoke to Hedayat Matine-Daftary, the grandson of Mohammed Mossadeq, the deposed prime minister. (Photo: crowds of people protest against the Iran coup in 1953. Credit: Getty Images)

A Recorded sermon from Bro. Alan Johnston. July 2, 2023

The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England on 22 June 1948 with 802 people on board from the Caribbean. The former passenger liner's arrival on that misty June day is now regarded as the symbolic starting point of a wave of Caribbean migration between 1948 and 1971 known as the "Windrush generation". Sam King was one of the passengers. He describes to Alan Johnston the conditions on board and the concerns people had about finding jobs in England. In this programme first broadcast in 2011, Sam also talks about what life was like in their adopted country once they arrived. (Photo: Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks in 1948. Credit: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England on 22 June 1948 with 802 people on board from the Caribbean. The former passenger liner's arrival on that misty June day is now regarded as the symbolic starting point of a wave of Caribbean migration between 1948 and 1971 known as the "Windrush generation". Sam King was one of the passengers. He describes to Alan Johnston the conditions on board and the concerns people had about finding jobs in England. In this programme first broadcast in 2011, Sam also talks about what life was like in their adopted country once they arrived. (Photo: Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks in 1948. Credit: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

Alan Johnston, KU2Y, has a continued interest in amateur satellites since his early beginnings in ham radio over 40 years ago.  Now the AMSAT's VP of Educational Relations, Alan reaches out to educate the general public about intriguing world  amateur satellites, and satellite technology using Cubesatsim, a live classroom simulation of satellite communications. Furthermore, he turns to high-altitude balloon launches as a practical, hands-on approach to bringing amateur payloads closer to space, thereby affording opportunities for tangible experience and simulation.KU2Y is my QSO Today.

In April 1986, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to a Rome synagogue. It was aimed at healing centuries of deep wounds between Jews and Catholics. Giacomo Saban, who welcomed the pontiff to the synagogue, tells his story to Alan Johnston. This programme was first broadcast in 2014. (Photo: Pope John Paul II at the synagogue. Credit: Getty Images)

The Iran-Iraq war began on 22 September 1980. It lasted for eight years and became one of the bloodiest wars in recent history. Pooneh Ghoddoosi was just a child when it started - a teenager when it ended. She told her story to Alan Johnston in 2010. (Photo: Iranian artillery, tanks, arms and munitions. Credit: AFP via Getty Images)

A recorded Sermon from Alan Johnston on April 24, 2022

Today's podcast is a chat about asset integrity and resilience with Alan Johnston, President and CEO of MIMOSA and George Varghese. MIMOSA is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to making commonplace IT and IM standards in asset and infrastructure management. Today we turn our gaze to Australia, and how they have been at the head of asset resilience. Duration: 37m and 50s

The HIV virus was first identified by medical experts in a journal article in 1981. In the early days of the epidemic, carriers of the virus were stigmatised and treatment was in its infancy. Alan Johnston talks to Ugandan-born Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma about her experiences of having HIV back in the 1980s. PHOTO: Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma

Welcome to the premier unvailing of the new Kim Robins CD, Leave The Porch Light On. Lots of super tunes with some really good work. Contributing writers include Paula Breedlove, Mark Brinkman, Rick Lang, Alan Johnston among others. Pickers and vocal contributers are Kyle Estep, Josh Woods, Duane Estep, Clay Hess, Brennan Hess & Tim Crouch. Distributed by Pinecastle Records.

In this edition: 01. Join the 2021 Presidents Club 02. AMSAT CubeSat Simulator - Dr. Alan Johnston, KU2Y, AMSAT Vice President - Educational Relations 03. AMSAT: Onward and Upward - Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President Part 1 04. AMSAT: Onward and Upward - Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT President Part 2 05. AMSAT Engineering Updated - Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT Vice President - Engineering 06. AMSATs GOLF Program 07. Latest information on ARISS 08. Zazzle store 09. Clint Bradford, K6LCS, Zoom presentations for working satellites 10. Virgin Orbit published a Payload Profiles 11. Mars 2020 Perseverance rover 12. AMSAT Getting Started with Amateur Satellites digital 13. AMSAT Getting Started with Amateur Satellites print 14. AMSAT News Service 15. AMSAT Office Closed 16. AMSATs GOLF Program 17. AMSAT Hardware Store 18. AMSAT Gear on Zazzle 19. AMSAT Remove Before Flight Keychains 20. AMSAT Membership 21. Join AMSAT Presidents Club 22. AMSAT Donations 23. AMSAT on Twitter 24. and more.

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Hundreds of pioneering migrants travelled from the Caribbean to the UK on board the SS Empire Windrush in 1948. The passage cost £28,10 shillings. Passenger Sam King described to Alan Johnston the conditions on board and the concerns people had about finding a job in England. He also talked about what life was like in their adopted country once they arrived. This programme is a rebroadcast Photo: The SS Empire Windrush. Credit:Press Association.

Franklin McCain was one of four young black men who took a stand against racial segregation in the USA in 1960. They sat down at a "whites only" lunch counter and asked to be served. When they were asked to leave, they refused, and soon their quiet protest was attracting attention from around the country. In 2011 Franklin McCain spoke to Alan Johnston about that time. This programme is a rebroadcast. Photo: Franklin McCain in 2010. Credit: Getty Images.

Alan Johnston speaks about the past four years he, and his wife, spent alongside a small church in Italy as missionaries with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. 1 Thessalonians 1 vs 1 - 10

A former schoolgirl remembers the children's demonstration against having to study in Afrikaans that sparked the Soweto Uprising against South Africa's apartheid regime. Bongi Mkhabela spoke to Alan Johnston in 2010 about her memories of the protest.This programme is a rebroadcast.Photo: Schoolchildren demonstrating on June 16th 1976 in Soweto. (Credit:Bongani Mnguni/City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

1:51 Would you sing in 4 part harmony as kid in your family? 2:50 How big is your family? 3:06 Was your mom a trained musician? 3:27 Talking about the amazing church in Buffalo 5:26 Do you have Absolute Pitch or Perfect Pitch? 5:31 Did your parents ever ask you to practice? 6:32 Talking about “Oh Happy Day" by Edwin Hawkins 7:20 What did you mean by conservative? 7:40 Talking about Alan Johnston and his wife Shirley's influence 9:03 Being very self taught, did you take things from records and peers? 10:30 On listening to Earth, Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder when young 11:13 How would you work out songs by ear that you heard? 12:13 On the influence of Gene Puerling and the Hi-Los 12:54 Did you own a record player or listen on the radio? 13:26 Was that around the same that you met Mervyn Warren at Oakwood? 13:37 What was a typical day like at Oakwood with Mervyn Warren? 15:10 When was the very first time that you started arranging? 15:45 Was it true that you actually majored in business and computer programming? 17:29 What did you mean by your own rules of Harmony with Mervyn Warren? 19:11 Working with Ray Charles 21:05 What did Ray Charles mean by not wanting to choose a particular song, was it the music or the lyrics? 22:00 What did he think about the music you were creating, harmonically? 22:39 Working with Quincy Jones 24:19 How do you think of lyrics? 25:43 Do you work better in the morning or the evening? 26:39 How much listening have you done in your life? 29:19 Describe the influence of jazz in your music 30:56 Working with Ella Fitzgerald 31:25 Talking about Al Jarreau 33:27 Arranging “Seven Steps to Heaven” on The Standard, with Al Jarreau 35:15 Who are your favorite jazz instrumentalists 36:19 Do you play any other instruments? 36:48 What's it like working with Stevie Wonder? 38:54 What are you still learning in music? 40:33 How are you going about learning music theory? 41:27 Do you listen to classical music? or film music? 43:06 Talking about the album “Iconic” 44:59 Talking about the track “Back in Love Again” 46:13 Talking about the track “Can't Stop the FeelinG” 47:27 How is the Mark Kibble today different from the Mark Kibble of 10-20 years ago? 47:55 Have an example of a song or album that shows you going crazy with the harmony in your younger days? 49:42 Is there anyone that you would have liked to work with in the studio in history? 50:43 Upcoming projects 51:58 Wrapping Up ----- Our guest today is multi-GRAMMY Award-winning singer, arranger, composer and producer, Mark Kibble, of the famed American vocal group Take 6! With a career spanning over 25 years, 16 albums, 10 GRAMMY awards, 10 Gospel Music Association Dove awards, and 3 gold albums, Take 6 is the most awarded a cappella group in history, performing with some of the biggest names in music such as Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Don Henley, James Taylor and many more. Their most recent release is 2018's “Iconic”. We talk about his musical development from young, his approach to arrangement, harmony, working with Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau and so much more!

新知日历 | 喜马拉雅平台首档自制知识资讯类音频节目从专业人士演讲、权威学术期刊、社会热点文章，行业大数据平台，分析报告等各类来源提取新认知、新观点和新趋势，为用户提供每日高品质知识资讯。新技能 | 确认过眼神，问题是你敢吗？你好！欢迎打开今天的新知日历！问一个问题，你擅长眼神交流吗？在与人面对面时，眼神是我们最直接的沟通工具，有时它比语言的力量更强大。有一种说法说，人类之所以进化出眼神交流这种技能，是为了更好地相互协作。这就是“目光协作假说”。这个理论认为，方向明确的目光，可以使近距离的合作变得更容易。 如果能通过眼神辨别他人的想法，对双方都有好处。想象一下，在语言还没有产生之前，早期人类在采摘果子的时候、围攻野兽的时候。目光的作用非常重要，只需一个眼神，同伴就知道你是怎么想的了。不过在现代社会，并不是每个人都擅长眼神交流。很多人选择避免与他人进行眼神交流，尤其是与陌生人的眼神交流。为什么有人不愿意进行眼神交流呢？视觉接触心理学认为，快乐、悲伤、喜悦、紧张等情绪都能通过眼神反映出来。与他人的视觉接触，会泄露自己的内心情绪。眼神交流专家——美国人迈克尔·埃尔斯伯格（Michael Ellsberg）认为，这其实是一种社会焦虑。由于人们害怕眼神交流后被看穿、被拒绝或被嘲笑。所以改变了自己的社交策略，选择避免与他人的眼神交流。这也是为什么，敢于眼神交流的人看起来更自信。还有一个原因，眼神交流可能会影响人们的交谈思路。日本京都大学的学者曾做过一项实验：一边让志愿者进行词汇联想，一边盯着屏幕上的人脸图像。比如，实验要求志愿者联想与“文件夹”相关的动词。同时，用眼睛盯着计算机屏幕上的人脸图像。这些人脸，有时会直视镜头，有时会看着其他方向。实验发现，当屏幕中的人脸直视镜头，志愿者需要跟他进行眼神接触的时候，他们做词汇联想的效率就会降低，需要花更长的时间才能想出答案。对于这个现象，学者们是这样解释的：“词汇联想”与“眼神交流”这两个任务都会占用大脑资源。两者之间相互干扰，导致两者不能兼顾。所以，为了保持语言的顺畅和逻辑，人们有时会刻意减少眼神交流。从这个角度说，如果你在沟通的时候敢于跟对方确认眼神。这不仅说明你自信，还说明你脑容量高！其实在很多时候，眼神交流都必不可少。我们需要通过眼神来拉近彼此的距离，告诉对方“我正在听”、“我很有诚意”。那么，当我们需要眼神交流的时候，怎样才能不尴尬、hold住全场呢？其实，眼神交流可以通过训练来优化。首先，将每次眼神交流的时间控制在3秒左右，这个时间既给出了你的反馈，又不会让对方感到尴尬。伦敦大学的心理学家Alan Johnston做过一个实验，请志愿者根据不同时长的眼神接触，描述自己感受到的舒适程度。结果发现，平均来说，让人感到最舒服的眼神交流持续时间是3.2秒。当然，如果对方看起来值得信任，而不是产生威胁，他们愿意接受更长时间的眼神交流。第二，不要紧盯着眼睛看，而是要看对方的整张脸。这样的视线会显得比较柔和，没有侵略性。 或者使用“三角形路线法”，就是将视线在两个眼睛和嘴之间移动，每个点保持3秒左右。第三，如果察觉到对方已经感到了尴尬，可以将视线转向旁边，适时打断一下眼神交流。还有第四点，练习一些适合自己的肢体语言。比如点头、前倾、手势等，配合眼神一起使用。还有最好用的，微笑，屡试不爽。好了，今天的话题就到这里，你有什么眼神交流的好办法呢？一起来讨论一下吧！咱们留言里见！source1、为什么有些人特别害怕眼神接触2、目光游离，人缘越差 |论眼神交流重要性3、与人交谈是如何进行眼神交流的4、解读：《眼神不败术》（《眼神不败术:让你职场、情场、菜市场都无往不利的视觉接触心理学》撰稿 | 彭健楠主持人 | 褚笑，前中央人民广播电台主持人，《新知日历》节目总监制主编 | 韩悦思节目运营 | 柳婷婷专辑图视觉创意 | 贺归昀主视觉 | 李芳舟

On our latest episode of Grounded, Alan Johnston, Senior Engineer for the City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant, is with us to talk about the plant’s operations (everybody poops!), and how they’ve implemented energy projects onsite that end up producing more electricity than the plant can even use. Gresham has also become the first certified facility for Renewable Energy Certificates for thermal energy. ODOE REC expert Rebecca Smith joins the episode later to talk about what that means. Visit https://energyinfo.oregon.gov for photos and helpful links. Learn more about our work at https://www.oregon.gov/energy. Music: “If” by Broke for Free. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/If

A former student, Olda Cerny, tells Alan Johnston about how he made a desperate appeal for the support of the outside world as invading Soviet tanks rumbled through the streets of the Czechoslovak capital in August 1968. This programme was first broadcast in 2010.Picture: Soviet troops in Prague (Getty Images)

Alan Johnston works independently on the State of the Nation document on behalf of the Salvation Army which is presented to the nation annually. Show Links: Kei a Tātou - It Is Us: State of the Nation 2018 https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/research-media/social-policy-and-parliamentary-unit/latest-report/State-of-Nation-2018

Alan Johnston talks to the former US Marine and peace activist Ron Kovic about two moments that changed his life forever - one on the battlefield, and one at an anti-war protest in Washington. He became famous when his life story was made into a Hollywood film.

Alan Johnston talks to the former US Marine and peace activist Ron Kovic about two moments that changed his life forever - one on the battlefield, and one at an anti-war protest in Washington. He became famous when his life story was made into a Hollywood film.

This evening we will hear something about his life from Ian Wilson and then we will hear from two modern day missionaries working in Europe – Philip Moore from France and Alan Taylor from Italy.

In May 1915, Italy entered WW1 on the side of the Allies, fighting against the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany. Their war was not fought on the Western front, but in the mountains of the Alps. Using the diary of an Italian soldier, Alan Johnston tells the story of one man's war. Photo: An Italian Alpine Regiment move up the Rurtor Glacier. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, Chris Morris, who was in Gaza twenty years ago, returns to chronicle how things 'have got worse, much worse'. Claudia Hammond, in Cyprus, on the latest attempts to find out what happened to those who went missing decades ago during fighting between the island's Greek and Turkish communities; Tim Mansel is in Sierra Leone amid growing alarm over the spread of the Ebola virus in west Africa. Why a seagull observed in Vatican City could be a disturbing omen for peace - that's from Alan Johnston and Petroc Trelawny finds out where the newly-weds like to go in Guangzhou, one of China's fastest-developing cities.

In 1969 two young Australians bought a lion cub in Harrods and raised it in their London flat. John Rendall and Anthony Bourke then released the lion into the wild in Kenya. In 2011 Alan Johnston spoke to John Rendall about the extraordinary moment when they were reunited with Christian, which became a YouTube sensation.

Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to disappear in South Africa as a bitter mining dispute continues amid a mood of deepening disenchantment, a despatch from Hamilton Wende; On one of Rome's holiest weekends of the year, Alan Johnston's been to a non-Roman Catholic corner of the eternal city which enchanted the poets Keats and Shelley; Carrie Gracie starts her new job as the BBC's China editor with a list of hard-to-answer questions while Owen Bennett-Jones is down on the banks of the River Ganges wondering how a journalist can sort facts from fiction. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.

Stories from foreign correspondents. In this edition: Prashant Rao meets an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein and hears how difficult it is being named after the brutal and hated dictator; Lynne O'Donnell visits the famous 'laneways' of Melbourne in Australia and wonders whether this precious example of architectural heritage is being properly looked after by the local council; Jane Beresford finds her preconceptions shattered when she visits the Beirut suburb associated with the Hezbollah movement; Tamasin Ford journeys to a remote corner of Madagascar where an illegal trade in a rare wood is worth billions and Alan Johnston in Rome considers the man most likely to be Italy's next prime minister and suggests his strength may actually lie in his inexperience.

In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised that if they gave gold to the Nazis, they would escape deportation. Despite handing over 50kg of gold - more than 1,500 of the city's Jews were rounded up and sent to the death camps. Alan Johnston reports from Rome. Photo: Survivor Settimia Spizzichino (far right)

In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised that if they gave gold to the Nazis, they would escape deportation. Despite handing over 50kg of gold - more than 1,500 of the city's Jews were rounded up and sent to the death camps. Alan Johnston reports from Rome. Photo: Survivor Settimia Spizzichino (far right)

Correspondents' despatches from around the globe. Who'll emerge victorious from the struggle in Taksim Square? Paul Mason gives his view after spending the week in Istanbul. Lyse Doucet believes the new prime minister of Pakistan faces a daunting set of problems -- but she finds there's little chance of him going hungry! The Nigerian military say they're making progress in their campaign against the rebels of Boko Haram - Will Ross has been to the north-east of the country to make his own assessment. Alan Johnston explains how Mussolini's Fascists created a corner of Italy where homosexuals could be glad to be gay. And foreign journalists are rarely welcomed in North Korea but Juliet Rix has been there as a tourist and was delighted to meet the locals and go dancing in a park in Pyongyang. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent

Correspondents around the world: Jeremy Bowen on the increasing difficulties of reporting the war in Syria; Paul Lewis explores how corruption is reaching into the heart of everyday life in India; the diaspora returns - Andrew Harding talks of Somalia at the crossroads; Louisa Loveluck's at the morgue in Cairo - some say it's been covering up cases of police brutality and in Rome, Alan Johnston has been walking the cobblestones beloved of the tourists but held in rather less affection by the locals.

Correspondents' despatches from around the world. In this edition: Thomas Fessy marches through Mali with the French Foreign Legion looking for insurgents; Jonathan Fryer's in the Angolan capital, Luanda, where people have much to look at but, in most cases, little money to spend. What's the point of the Swiss army? Imogen Foulkes says some there believe there's no further need for compulsory military service. Alan Johnston chronicles a sad, final day at a 'trotting' track in Italy which is closing down, another victim of the recession there. And the Germans may have a reputation for businesslike efficiency but Steve Evans in Berlin has been learning that they don't always get it right!

Andrew Harding travels to the centre of Mali to find out how the fight against the Islamist rebels is affecting life in one small country town. Thousands of prisoners are being released from jail in Georgia -- Damien McGuinness has been learning that not all Georgians think that's such a good idea. Silvio Berlusconi's trying again to be prime minister of Italy. Alan Johnston in Rome's been finding out that many Italians don't want to see a return of the bunga bunga king. Orla Guerin tells us what it's like to live and work in Pakistan, a land which sometimes seems as if it's in perpetual crisis and ... turbulence at 35-thousand feet!!! Paul Moss takes a flight where the hostesses dispensed diplomacy along with the gin and tonics.

Kate Adie presents reporters' despatches from across the globe. Matthew Teller meets the stateless bidoons of Kuwait Mark Lobel looks attempts to improve one of Cape Town's poorest settlement in the wake of a devastating fire. Jonathan Fryer assesses Baghdad's surprising aspiration to become the conference capital of the Middle East. Alan Johnston wonders whether the mystery of Garbaldi's final resting place will ever be solved. Dany Mitzman describes the trials and tribulations of not eating meat while living in pork-crazed Bologna.

Kevin Connolly suggests that two deaths in the Middle East, eight hundred years and several hundred miles apart, offer lessons on the wisdom of foreign intervention in Syria. Alan Johnston's been to a building in Rome they call the Palace of Shame where hundreds of migrants live with time on their hands to consider the difficulties of finding a dream life in Europe. Some of the millions who left Zimbabwe as the country fell into violence and poverty have started to make their way back. But Jenny Cuffe's been discovering that not all are being welcomed home with open arms. Nick Thorpe -- knocked off his bike in Budapest -- has had an unexpected opportunity to take a close look at the Hungarian health service. And the economic crisis may have hit Ireland hard. But Kieran Cooke, in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, has been learning that people are still determined to have some fun.

Kate Adie hosts correspondents' stories from the United States, Russia, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. The United States breathes a sigh of relief that Hurricane Isaac didn't turn into another Katrina. Alastair Leithead has been in the eye of the storm. The new 'skinheads'. Tom Esslemont tries to unpick what motivates Russia's ultra-nationalists. Just where did Julius Caesar REALLY defeat the Gaulls? Hugh Schofield investigates a case of alleged archaeological skulduggery in Burgundy. Alan Johnston meets the new Mayor of Palma, a member of the 'Five Star Movement' currently gaining political influence in Italy. And Rob Cameron makes a sentimental journey ... to a campsite in South Bohemia.

As speculation continues about who's won the election in Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli hears how "Libyan women face five problems: the father, the son, the husband, the brother and the working man!" Deep in the hills of Honduras Stephen Sackur's been talking to a man who's trying to escape the country's drugs and gang culture but fears he won't be allowed to succeed. In the week China released figures showing how its economy has slowed down, Michael Bristow leaves the country in, as he puts it, the midst of an unfinished revolution. Alan Johnston descends below ground level in Rome to learn a little more about the fears which beset Benito Mussolini in the final years of his dictatorship. And did you know bird spit can be big business? It is in Malaysia. Jenifer Pak's been finding out how the market's now being flooded by counterfeiters.

Churches and mosques are being targetted by the Boko Haram militant group in Nigeria. Will Ross has been to the northern city of Jos, a city he says feels like it's under seige. The Europe-wide debt crisis is increasingly being felt in Italy, where both prices and unemployment are soaring. Alan Johnston's in a suburb of Rome, hearing that people have begun to feel the pinch. It's fifty years now since Algerians won their battle for independence from France. Chloe Arnold in Algiers has been meeting a woman who feels she did her bit to liberate the country. Jim Carey's in Jordan, a kingdom which prefers hospitality to headlines and has a policy of being nice to everybody. And is conformism really a feature of the French psyche? It's a question which has been troubling Hugh Schofield on his morning runs around the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.

Alan Johnston's been to the Italian towns shaken by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks. In Pakistan, monsoon season is approaching again: Aleem Maqbool meets victims of last year's disastrous flooding amid concerns it could happen again. Hamilton Wende, a longterm resident of Johannesburg, believes it's shaking off a reputation for violence and urban decay. James McConnachie is in Nepal, where Chinese influence is bringing new road-building projects to the world's most dramatic mountain landscapes. And Roland Buerk is in Tokyo, where pets are pampered like nowhere else on earth.

Portia Walker: optimism in Yemen has been punctured by a devastating bomb blast in the capital. Alan Johnston: a state funeral has taken place in Sicily to honour a man who dared to take on the Mafia - and paid the ultimate price. Laura Trevelyan: the town in Mexico which has grown rich on the profits of sex trafficking. Matthew Teller: how the authorities in the Saudi capital Riyadh have transformed a public rubbish tip into lush parkland complete with lakes and walkways. and Bethany Bell: why the people of Vienna, who live in one of the world's most desirable capital cities, still seem to have plenty to moan about.

After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines finding out!

The leader of a student protest in Greece nearly 40 years ago tells Alan Johnston about the moment when the country's military junta sent in the tanks, and how she only just managed to escape with her life. This programe was first broadcast last year.

In the 1960s, American athlete Dick Fosbury revolutionised high-jumping by inventing the 'Fosbury flop'. Instead of diving or scissor-kicking over the high-jump bar, Fosbury floated across on his back. He went on to win a gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.In 2011, Alan Johnston spoke to Dick Fosbury for Sporting Witness.Image: Dick Fosbury's winning leap at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)

It is almost exactly 40 years since two young Australians had what has become a famous encounter with a lion in the depths of the African bush. John Rendall and Anthony Bourke had come across "Christian" late in 1969, at what was then a zoo in the upmarket London department store, Harrods. Alan Johnston speaks to John Rendall about their decision to release him into the wild in Kenya and the extraordinary moment that became a YouTube sensation.

Through the BBC's Archive footage Alan Johnston pieces together the story of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot who was shot down during a dogfight and badly burnt before parachuting from his stricken aircraft. We hear how Richard Hillary then had to prepare to die as he drifted for hours in the North Sea. Photo: Press Association

Through the BBC's Archive footage Alan Johnston pieces together the story of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot who was shot down during a dogfight and badly burnt before parachuting from his stricken aircraft. We hear how Richard Hillary then had to prepare to die as he drifted for hours in the North Sea. Photo: Press Association

We take you back more than 40 years to the height of the war in Vietnam. Alan Johnston talks to the former US Marine and peace activist Ron Kovic about two moments that changed his life forever - one on the battlefield, and one at anti-war protest in Washington.

It's 30 years since the HIV virus was first identified by medical experts. In the early days, carriers of the virus were stigmatised and treatment was in its infancy. Alan Johnston talks to Ugandan-born Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma about her experiences of having HIV back in the 1980s.

In the 1930s, a combination of bad weather and Soviet policy led to a devastating famine in Ukraine. Alan Johnston brings together accounts from a survivor and a journalist who visited Ukraine at the time. This programme was first broadcast last year.

Alan Johnston hears one woman's account of how she and others defied the Taliban's efforts to prohibit education for girls in Afghanistan, by setting up secret schools and helping teachers to give lessons in their homes.

In November 1940 sustained German bombing raids left the ancient English city of Coventry in ruins. Its medieval cathedral burned down and hundreds of its citizens were killed. Alan Johnston looks back for Witness.

Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada – or uprising – was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied territories. This was an era when Palestinian militants regularly battled the Israeli Defence Force in the streets. The BBC's Alan Johnston reported from Nablus during those dark, dangerous days. Now, for Assignment, on his first reporting trip back in the Middle East since he was kidnapped in Gaza, he returns to Nablus to find out how life has changed for the town.

Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.

Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.

Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.