Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas
Published: December 20, 2025
Duration: 1:00:48
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service.
We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s.
Our guest is cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who tells us more about the history of sushi in Japan and around the world.
We hear about the first opera written for TV in 1950s America and how U.S Marshalls used fake NFL tickets to capture some of Washington DC’s most wanted.
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