Witness History Podcast
History as told by the people who were there.
Episodes to download
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Posh and Becks - the wedding
Fri 25 Mar 2011
In July 1999 two members of British celebrity royalty tied the knot
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The 大象传媒 Russian service
Thu 24 Mar 2011
For 65 years the 大象传媒 World Service has broadcast in Russian, this weekend it stops
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Leonardo da Vinci v Michelangelo
Wed 23 Mar 2011
Over 500 years ago in Renaissance Italy, a battle was underway between two great painters.
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Tokaimura nuclear accident
Mon 21 Mar 2011
In September 1999 there was a nuclear accident at Tokaimura in Japan
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Isherwood in Berlin
Fri 18 Mar 2011
The English author Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin throughout the 1930s.
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Ordination of Women Priests
Thu 17 Mar 2011
Angela Berners-Wilson on her experiences that day, and her long fight to become a priest
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Halabja
Wed 16 Mar 2011
In March 1988 Iraqi forces attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons
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Air strikes on Libya 1986
Mon 14 Mar 2011
It is almost 25 years since the US decided to take military action against Libya
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Dunblane school shooting
Thu 10 Mar 2011
The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996
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Zeebrugge ferry disaster
Wed 9 Mar 2011
Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people
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Political Activist Rosa Luxemburg
Tue 8 Mar 2011
A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution
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Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA
Fri 4 Mar 2011
The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970
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Rhodesian republic
Thu 3 Mar 2011
In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever
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The Krakow Ghetto
Wed 2 Mar 2011
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
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Libya 1969 coup
Tue 1 Mar 2011
It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup
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Assassination of Malcolm X
Mon 28 Feb 2011
How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.
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Nicaraguan elections
Fri 25 Feb 2011
It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power
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Khrushchev's Secret Speech
Thu 24 Feb 2011
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
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Apartheid in the 1950s
Wed 23 Feb 2011
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
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People Power in the Philippines
Tue 22 Feb 2011
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.
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Algeria emergency
Mon 21 Feb 2011
How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.
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The Lindbergh kidnapping
Fri 18 Feb 2011
On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing
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The death of Captain Cook
Wed 16 Feb 2011
In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii
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Fall of Singapore
Tue 15 Feb 2011
The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942
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Assassination of Rafik Hariri
Mon 14 Feb 2011
On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated
