Vicky Farncombe

I'm a journalist for BBC Radio. I produce the Fame under Fire podcast for @BBCSounds and present Witness History on @BBCWorldService

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👀 In 1978, artist Eric Hill noticed his toddler kept lifting the paper he was working on, to see what was underneath

🐶 He came up with a new format for a children's book 'lift-the-flap' & created Spot the dog

📻 https://t.co/fDRFskvcAW

👦 Featuring Teddy's radio debut

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🚂 In 1951, a train was hijacked from Communist Czechoslovakia + diverted to freedom in West Germany

🇨🇿 Most of the passengers had no idea they were going to cross the Iron Curtain that day

📻 Karel Ruml guarded the brake with a gun: @bbcworldservice https://t.co/FvDhYXQDcG

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Loved this Jo!

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Great Scott! Back to the Future is 40 today! Watch co-writer Bob Gale explain how the DeLorean started out as a refrigerator @bbcworldservice
https://t.co/DZvgF9rtJY

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This summer on Witness History we have the joy of making the origin stories of two classic 80s films with big birthdays. ⁦@MegannJ⁩ brings us Making Jaws and on 3 July it’s my turn with Back to the Future ⁦@bbcworldservice⁩ https://t.co/NDU4wHRX5Q

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🇺🇸 In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York, after both its engines failed shortly after take off

✈️ All 155 people on board survived

🛟 I spoke to @DaveSanderson2, the last passenger to be rescued, for @bbcworldservice https://t.co/GaQriJJeEQ

[Ben Henderson History @benhenderson96]

@Eurovision starts tomorrow. But with Russia banned, President Putin has revived the Intervision Song Contest - the USSR's answer to Eurovision.

I interviewed Marion Rung, who twice achieved top 10 Eurovision finishes before winning Intervision in 1980.

Read on for one of the stranger chapters of Cold War history.🧵

(Marion Rung, Intervision 1980)

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Archaeologist Khalil Hariri risked everything - and was even shot at - when he rescued 400 artefacts from the clutches of the Islamic State group 10 years ago in Palmyra. Today’s Witness History on ⁦@bbcworldservice⁩ https://t.co/3JzY3AwFk5

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Absolutely chuffed that @jasonmohammad chose my episode about Exercise Tiger to feature on @BBCRadio4’s Pick of the Week - for the best programmes on BBC radio.

Read on to find out about Exercise Tiger - the disastrous D-Day rehearsal. 🧵

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In the event of a moon landing disaster, Richard Nixon had a contingency speech ready in case the astronauts never made it home.

🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there https://t.co/YnMnPwfPOo