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 1973 Israeli secret agents mistakenly killed a Moroccan waiter in Norway.
How British double agent, Oleg Gordievsky, escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985.
It is ten years since the launch of the virtual world Second Life.
In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.
Chris Patten remembers the day the territory was returned to China.
Hear how the first and only women's professional baseball league was established in the US during the WW2.
On July 12th 1979 a baseball stadium in Chicago hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot.
What happened when the remains of a NASA space station hit a remote Australian town in 1979.
In June 1963 a Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in protest at South Vietnam's treatment of Buddhists.
How one Iranian student became the unwitting symbol of the July 1999 pro democracy movement in his country.
On July 8th 1943 the French resistance leader was killed by German soldiers.
In July 1994, the Palestinian leader returned from exile to a tumultuous welcome in Gaza.
How the great thinker revolutionised his discipline with 1953's "Philosophical Investigations".
The mission to save thousands of African penguins from an oil spill.
How soldiers attacked and set fire to two students during an anti government protest in Chile.
