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BBC Audio | Witness History | Surviving the Long March

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...

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Man, 93, 'flies like an eagle' for 93rd birthday

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (290+ words) A man has completed a zipline challenge for charity for his 93rd birthday. Charles Wylie told the BBC he had "great fun" on the zip wire in Brighton, East Sussex. "Now I know what an eagle must feel like when it's…...

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Target reached for memorial to Channel Island WW2 journalists

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (471+ words) A fundraising target for a memorial to Channel Islands journalists who resisted Nazi occupation during World War Two has been reached, organisers have said. Historian Timothy Crook, who led the appeal, said the target of £1,000 was reached thanks to the…...

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The Stockport milkman who became a hero during audacious WW2 raid

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (738+ words) Sixteen-year-old James Conway was working as a milkman when World War Two broke out in the September of 1939. Conway, from Edgeley in Stockport, signed up to join the Royal Marines where he trained for a secret mission, later named Operation…...

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South Shields 'Death Railway' memorial unveiled on VJ Day

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (467+ words) A section of railway track has been unveiled at the site of a World War Two memorial commemorating prisoners who built what became known as the Death Railway between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly Burma. The reconstruction was installed in South…...