<p>Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. </p><p>We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. </p><p>Our guest is cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who tells us more about the history of sushi in Japan and around the world. </p><p>We hear about the first opera written for TV in 1950s America and how U.S Marshalls used fake NFL tickets to capture some of Washington DC’s most wanted. </p><p>Plus, how disability rights campaigners in India led to a change in the law in 1995 and when Scotland played hockey in Germany during the cold war. </p><p>Finally, the story of when Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas at an English country pub. </p><p>Contributors: </p><p>Bjørn-Eirik – Norwegian businessman who brought salmon sushi to Japan </p><p>Nancy Singleton Hachisu – cookbook author</p><p>Archive of Gian Carlo Menotti – Italian composer </p><p>Stacia Hylton – former U.S Marshall </p><p>Javed Abidi – Indian disability rights campaigner </p><p>Archive of customers at The Bull Inn – the pub that Laurel and Hardy visited in 1953</p><p>Valerie Sinclair – member of Scotland's hockey team who played West Germany in 1961 </p><p>(Photo: Japanese demonstration to Norwegian royal family. Credit: Bjørn-Eirik Olson)</p>