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:
In May 1992 the Bosnian President was seized by Serb soldiers at Sarajevo airport.
10 years ago a paralysed woman known as Miss B was allowed to die after a controversial court case.
80 years ago hundreds of young hillwalkers held a demonstration on top of a mountain called Kinder Scout in the North of England.
It is exactly 35 years since one of the coolest nightclubs ever, opened in New York.
One New Zealand soldier remembers how he survived the Battle of Gallipoli during World War One.
In the aftermath of the attacks, thousands of Basque children were sent to Britain to escape the Spanish Civil War. (this programme is a repeat)
How a court case about homosexual love ruined the 19th century British playwright.
How a speech by the conservative politician, Enoch Powell, put race at the heart of British political debate in 1968
Cartoonist Matt Groening remembers how he created The Simpsons 25 years ago.
How the Belgian resistance helped a group of Jews escape from a train bound for Auschwitz in 1943.
In 1997 left-wing rebels held diplomats hostage for more than 4 months in Lima.
How political opponents of the Soviet Union were routinely accused of madness and locked up in mental institutions.
Hear some of the survivors of the disaster - from the BBC archive.
In 1981 it was revealed that a young journalist had faked a Pulitzer Prize-winning story.
The Italian-Jewish writer who survived Auschwitz.
