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Witness history.
History as told by the people who were there.
We're the podcast that takes you back to a key moment in history.
It's an incredible archive.
The atomic bomb harnesses the power of the universe.
And the amazing memories of key witnesses.
We saw a tremendous flash of light into the manhole of the trench that we were in.
Witness history from the BBC World Service.
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Once upon a time, about 100,000 years ago in the chilly depths of the Ice Age,
multiple species of elephant roamed the Earth.
They prowled the globe, adapting habitats to their needs and evolving to accommodate new pressures.
Actually remarkably similar to our own evolutionary history.
And this is what fascinates today's guest, Tory Herridge,
a senior lecturer in evolutionary biology at the University of Sheffield and a seasoned science broadcaster.
Fascinated by fossil elephants and their evolutionary parallels with humanity,
Tory has spent much of her life studying such relics and the sites where they were excavated,