Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
We learn about how the James Bond film Spectre inspired Mexico City’s first Day of the Dead parade in 2016.
Our guest, Professor Erica Borgstrom, takes us around the world to learn how death is celebrated in different cultures.
Plus, how one woman survived Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013; a former altar boy’s memories of Pope Leo XIV’s time in Peru and Brazil’s Mariana dam disaster of 2015.
In Sporting Witness, the story of the Island Games.
And finally, we meet the father of stencil graffiti in France.
Contributors:
Alejandra González Anaya – organiser of Mexico City’s first Day of the Dead parade
Erica Borgstrom - professor of Medical Anthropology at the Open University
Joanna Sustento – survivor of Super Typhoon Haiyan
Héctor Camacho – friend of Pope Leo XIV
Paula Geralda Alves – survivor of the Mariana dam disaster
Pal Joensen – Island Games competitor
Xavier Prou – father of stencil graffiti
(Photo: The James Bond inspired Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City in 2016. Credit: Maria Calls/AFP via Getty Images)