Witness History Podcast
History as told by the people who were there.
Episodes to download
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Australian evacuee
Mon 20 Jun 2011
During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs
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Rape of Nanjing
Fri 17 Jun 2011
How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937
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Nureyev defects to the West
Thu 16 Jun 2011
On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union
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East German Uprising
Wed 15 Jun 2011
In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
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Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer
Tue 14 Jun 2011
The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper
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OJ Simpson car chase
Mon 13 Jun 2011
The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994
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Italian internees
Fri 10 Jun 2011
When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned
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Mixed race marriage victory in US
Thu 9 Jun 2011
How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US
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Attack on the Osirak reactor
Wed 8 Jun 2011
It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq
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Imprisonment in Syria
Tue 7 Jun 2011
As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime
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World's First Environment Conference
Mon 6 Jun 2011
The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit
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The early days of HIV/Aids
Fri 3 Jun 2011
The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus
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Retreat from Dunkirk
Thu 2 Jun 2011
One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk
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The Massacre of Baghdad's Jews
Wed 1 Jun 2011
The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews
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Attack at Lod Airport
Tue 31 May 2011
It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv
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Assassination of Trujillo
Mon 30 May 2011
It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator
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Amnesty at 50
Thu 26 May 2011
It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International
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Mariel Boatlift from Cuba
Wed 25 May 2011
Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980
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Manchester United 1968
Mon 23 May 2011
In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup
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The Irish Contraceptive Train
Fri 20 May 2011
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
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Leopold and Loeb
Thu 19 May 2011
In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago
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Crimean Tatars
Wed 18 May 2011
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
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The Irish pirate Queen
Tue 17 May 2011
Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I
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The fall of Berlin
Mon 16 May 2011
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
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Easter Rising in Ireland
Fri 13 May 2011
Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.
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Peter the Wild Boy
Thu 12 May 2011
Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.
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The death of President Tito
Wed 11 May 2011
President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe
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Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911
Tue 10 May 2011
The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history
