02/08/2014 GMT
Tanya Beckett introduces five films, including a story of arrest and execution in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and an account of the day when a Greenpeace ship was bombed.
Witness brings you a collection of stories of our times told by the people who were there. From the British Library in the heart of London, 大象传媒 presenter Tanya Beckett introduces us to five films this month, including a story of arrest and execution in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, we hear from a witness to the world's first commercial jet airliner and an account of the day when a Greenpeace ship was bombed by French secret agents.
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The Fall of General Somoza
Daisy Zamora recalls the struggle to overthrow the Nicaraguan dictator in July 1979
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Robert Graves' WW1 Poetry
Robert Graves' son William remembers his father, one of Britain's best known war poets.
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The sinking of Rainbow Warrior
French secret agents sank a Greenpeace ship. Pete Willcox was the ship's captain.
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Farzad Bazoft's execution in Iraq
Daphne Parish speaks about her friend Farzad Bazoft鈥檚 arrest and execution in Iraq
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The Last Days of British Rule in India
In 1947 India declared independence after hundreds of years of British rule.
