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 1942, Gandhi called on all Indians to rise up in non-violent resistance to British rule.
King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. After WWII, they settled in Paris.
In April 2004 the brutal killing of 23-year-old Axel Blumberg provoked a wave of protests in Argentina.
On April 1st 1957 a team of BBC journalists played an April Fool's joke on the British public.
On March 31 1995, rising Latino superstar Selena was shot dead by her fan club manager in a Texas motel.
In 1976 the first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was registered in a small village in northern Zaire.
In March 1999, US doctor Jack Kevorkian was convicted for performing euthanasia.
In March 1989, voters in the Soviet Union elected the first democratic parliament in the country's history. We speak to one of the non-Communist MP's elected at the time.
30 years ago a Maori language song got to number one in New Zealand for the first time. It reinvigorated the Maori language and changed the way they saw themselves.
In 2000, a missing plane was found 53 years after it disappeared.
In March 2000 hundreds of doomsday cult members were found murdered in Uganda
In 1987 the authorities in the USA approved the drug AZT for use in the fight against AIDS.
How Princess Anne escaped a kidnap attempt by a lone gunman in London in March 1974.
In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of foreign workers were invited to Germany to power the country's economic regeneration. Most of them came from Turkey, or Southern Europe.
How an oil tanker that hit rocks off the coast of England caused the biggest oil spill the world had ever been seen.
