The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Sarah Ward, a maritime archaeologist from the Australian National University. We start with the discovery of the sunken Terra Nova, Scott of the Antartic's ship. We hear from the Danish food entrepeneur Claus Meyer - a driving force behind New Nordic Cuisine. Then, the long journey that finally took Picasso's Guernica to Spain. Plus, the Chinese pharmacist who invented the e-cigarette. And, the life of Echo the elephant - the star of the world's longest-running study of wild elephants in Kenya. Finally, "fan man" James Miller and boxing's most bizarre night. Contributors: Leighton Rolley - oceanographer. Dr Sarah Ward - maritime archaeologist from the Australian National University. Claus Meyer - Danish food entrepeneur. Ambassador Rafael Fernandez-Quintanilla - Spanish diplomat (from BBC archive). Hon Lik - inventor of the e-cigarette. Dr Cynthia Moss - founder of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project. Marc Ratner - former representative of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. (Photo: The Terra Nova held up in the pack, Antarctica, 1910. Credit: Herbert Ponting/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

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The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant is an episode from The History Hour by BBC.

This episode is 60:32 long.

This episode was published on Apr 4, 2026.

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