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Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the nightclub that changed Ibiza, some of the worst forest fires in history, the resignation of Richard Nixon, discovering the Hale Bopp comet and Sweden’s pronoun battle.
(Photo: Sunset over the sea in Ibiza with boats in the distance. Credit: BBC and Minnow Films)
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