Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
We find out how teenage Osmonds鈥� fans caused a building at Heathrow to collapse, how a peace walk helped Cambodia unite after war, and how the first Lagos Fashion Week began.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week鈥檚 Witness History episodes from the 91热爆 World Service.
We hear about Osmondmania! The moment in 1973 when teenage fans of American heartthrobs, The Osmonds, caused a balcony at Heathrow to collapse.
Also, we find out about the first peace walk in Cambodia and how it united a country torn apart by war.
Plus, the birth of Lagos Fashion Week and how it put Nigerian design on the global map.
Contributors:
Donny Osmond.
Josephine McDermott, 91热爆 producer and presenter.
Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, organiser of Cambodia鈥檚 first peace walk.
Parul Akhter, a sewing machinist who survived the Rana Plaza building collapse.
Oscar Maynez, a forensic scientist who used to work in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez where hundreds of young women were kidnapped or killed.
Paula Flores, the mother of one of the murdered girls.
Omoyemi Akerele who organised the first Lagos Fashion Week.
(Photo: Donny Osmond greets fans at Heathrow airport. Credit: George Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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