Witness
Summary: History as told by the people who were there. Witness talks to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events. Broadcast on weekdays.
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Podcasts:
Hear from a bridegroom who let the Reverend Moon choose his bride.
The female flyer who went missing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Thousands of airmen died during the Allied bombing raids of World War Two - a veteran remembers.
In 1997 Hong Kong was handed back to China after 150 years of British rule.
In 1997 a replica of Shakespeare's Globe theatre was opened in London.
In 1969 a conflict between Honduras and El Salvador coincided with the World Cup qualifiers.
65 years after publication, her cousin remembers.
Louise Hidalgo talks to three people who remember the heady days of 1987 in the Soviet Union when Mikhail Gorbachev introduced perestroika.
One Frenchwoman remembers life in France under Nazi occupation during World War Two.
When Berlin was cut off by the Cold War in 1948, the western powers had to find a way of supplying their sector of the divided city. (NB: This programme was first broadcast in 2010)
It is over 20 years since people first started to arrive at what is now the largest refugee camp in the world.
30 years ago the Italian banker with close ties to the Vatican was found dead in London.
Friends and family remember the author of one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.
On June 14 1982 British troops defeated Argentine soldiers on the Falklands, or Malvinas islands, in the South Atlantic.
It is 10 years since he was first appointed interim President of Afghanistan. He is still in power.
