Witness History Podcast
History as told by the people who were there.
Episodes to download
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Ulrike Meinhof
Mon 9 May 2011
In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison
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Victory in Europe Day
Fri 6 May 2011
On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.
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Four minute mile
Thu 5 May 2011
In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes
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Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa
Tue 3 May 2011
Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998
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Fall of Berlin
Mon 2 May 2011
The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945
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Dennis Tito - The first space tourist
Thu 28 Apr 2011
Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist
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Rock against Racism 1978
Wed 27 Apr 2011
How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation
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The bombing of Guernica
Tue 26 Apr 2011
It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.
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The Hitler diaries hoax
Mon 25 Apr 2011
In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.
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Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Fri 22 Apr 2011
Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
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Romanian family history
Thu 21 Apr 2011
One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police
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Gandhi's Salt March protest
Wed 20 Apr 2011
How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India
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Waco siege
Tue 19 Apr 2011
How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Mon 18 Apr 2011
Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
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Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier
Fri 15 Apr 2011
She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state
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The Hama massacre 1982
Thu 14 Apr 2011
In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime
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Windscale - Britain's worst nuclear accident
Wed 13 Apr 2011
In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire
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Yuri Gagarin
Tue 12 Apr 2011
The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement
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The Rwandan genocide
Wed 6 Apr 2011
A plane crash on 6 April 1994, set off a wave of killing in Rwanda which lasted 100 days
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The death of Kurt Cobain
Tue 5 Apr 2011
Thirty years ago, the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana was found dead in his home
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Poll tax riots
Thu 31 Mar 2011
The anti-poll tax demonstration of March 1990 brought thousands onto the streets of London
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War in East Pakistan
Mon 28 Mar 2011
In 1971, war began between East and West Pakistan - leading to the creation of Bangladesh
