Mexico’s Day of the Dead parade and the Pope in Peru

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes. We learn about how the James Bond film Spectre inspired Mexico City’s first Day of the Dead parade in 2016. Our guest, Professor Erica Borgstrom, takes us around the world to learn how death is celebrated in different cultures. Plus, how one woman survived Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013; a former altar boy’s memories of Pope Leo XIV’s time in Peru and Brazil’s Mariana dam disaster of 2015. In Sporting Witness, the story of the Island Games. And finally, we meet the father of stencil graffiti in France. Contributors: Alejandra González Anaya – organiser of Mexico City’s first Day of the Dead parade Erica Borgstrom - professor of Medical Anthropology at the Open University Joanna Sustento – survivor of Super Typhoon Haiyan Héctor Camacho – friend of Pope Leo XIV Paula Geralda Alves – survivor of the Mariana dam disaster Pal Joensen – Island Games competitor Xavier Prou – father of stencil graffiti (Photo: The James Bond inspired Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City in 2016. Credit: Maria Calls/AFP via Getty Images)