Witnesses to the 20th Century
Those who first saw the structure of DNA to the people who trained for Apollo XVI
Reminiscences from the 20th Century, including people who witnessed the Hiroshima mission, people who first saw the structure of DNA and people who trained for Apollo XVI.
Hear Irina Sergevna Tidmarsh who watched the 1917 Russian Revolution from her bedroom window in Moscow.
Harold Agnew - the bomb scientist who flew in the back-up plane in the bombing of Hiroshima.
James Watson - one of the scientists who discovered the structure of DNA.
Brigadier-General Charles M Duke Jnr. one of the first astronauts on the moon.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the girl who featured in the iconic photo of the Vietnam War - her clothes had been burned away by a napalm attack in 1972.
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