The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss

The History Hour - A podcast by BBC World Service - Saturdays

How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate friends who had died of AIDS with a quilt, plus sequencing the 1918 flu virus, five years of war in Yemen, the story of a child abandoned in Hong Kong, and an attack on South Korea.(Photo: A section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Getty Images)