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 November 1970 Portuguese troops carried out a raid on Guinea Conakry.
The historic 1943 meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill to discuss the progress of the fight against Nazi Germany.
The 1970s road safety campaign which changed the face of the Netherlands.
In November 1936 a US socialite and her Chinese-American guide trapped a baby panda.
In 1993 the first webcam went online - its camera was focused on a coffee pot.
November 23rd 1963 saw the first episode of one of the world's best loved TV programmes.
In 1974, bombs ripped through two pubs in the English city of Birmingham, killing 21. The IRA were blamed.
In November 1995, Nigeria's military government executed the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other activists from the oil producing Niger Delta.
Hear from two people who knew Oswald during the time he lived in Minsk, before shooting President Kennedy in Nov 1963.
A follower of Jim Jones tells how she escaped the mass suicide.
How one French doctor tried to reach the wounded on the frontline in Yemen.
In 1984, doctors in California performed a pioneering transplant operation to save the life of a tiny baby girl.
Boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini speaks about the death from brain damage of his South Korean opponent in Nov. 1982.
In November 1933, one of the first big dust-storms devastated the central plains of the USA. The storms forced hundreds of thousands of people to migrate to California.
Listen to voices from the archives remembering the day the guns of World War One finally fell silent.
