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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In February 1952 eight unarmed protestors were shot dead by police in Dhaka. They were marching in defence of the Bengali language.
In February 1991 protesters pulled down the giant statue of Albania's former communist dictator.
Deng Xiaoping's translator talks about the architect of China's economic reforms.
In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked off a Scottish island.
How a young black graffiti artist took the New York art world by storm in the early 1980s.
A personal account from one former member of an elite Sandinista combat unit in the 1980s.
In 1974, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer was exiled from the USSR.
In 1979, the Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives forever.
In 2004, Iraq Survey Group head Dr David Kay resigned, concluding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction didn't exist.
In 1939 a young British camerman, Douglas Slocombe, travelled to Poland and filmed the anticipated Nazi invasion.
On February 7th, 1964, the British pop group the Beatles were met by hysterical crowds in the USA.
When WW2 ended tens of thousands of British and European women set off for a new life with their wartime husbands all over the world. Today we go back to 1946 when the first dedicated war brides ship took one thousand women and children from the UK to Canada
In 1944, Colossus - the world's first electronic computer - began attacking encrypted Nazi messages.
In February 2004, 23 Chinese migrants drowned while picking shellfish off the north-west coast of England.
Abkhazia is just south of the Winter Olympics resort of Sochi. In 1992 it began a struggle for independence from Georgia.
