Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion

The History Hour by BBC

May 30, 202660:14Society & Culture

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Michelle Meinhart, a reader in musicology and cultural history at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London....

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