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:
How a school sports teacher transformed the life of the British Olympic champion, Mo Farah.
How a man believed to be the last Native American in northern California emerged from the wilderness in 1911.
In 1981 anti-apartheid protestors used a plane to try to stop a rugby match in New Zealand.
In 1956 a Hungarian Cardinal sought refuge in the US Embassy.
How anti-Vietnam protestors turned the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago into chaos.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the story of his emergence as a champion bodybuilder in the 1960s.
How a tiny demonstration by Soviet intellectuals in 1968 challenged the authority of the Kremlin.
The death in 1954 of the Brazilian president, Getulio Vargas, who took his life rather than back down to the military.
In 1963 a group of thieves got away with more than two million pounds in what came to be known as The Great Train Robbery.
How a marathon TV broadcast during a devastating hurricane made one weather forecaster a hero in Miami in 1992.
In the summer of 1976 the England cricket captain, Tony Greig, said he was going to make the West Indies "grovel" in the upcoming series of Test matches. It was a remark he came to regret, and for which he did a very public penance.
The grandson of Leon Trotsky, now in his eighties, describes arriving home from school aged 14, to discover his grandfather has been assassinated.
The parcel bomb attack that killed anti-apartheid activist Ruth First in 1982.
How a 1968 television special revived the career of the King of Rock and Roll.
Louise Hidalgo talks to Lady Pamela Hicks, the daugher of Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India.
