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:
The tragic story of the real-life family that inspired the writing of Peter Pan.
It is over 175 years since Caroline Norton fought to change the law on mother's rights in Britain.
How El Salvador's outspoken Roman Catholic Archbishop was shot dead while saying mass.
In 1973, American prisoners of war first told how they had been tortured by the Vietcong.
It is almost 40 years since a vast army of life-size statues of soldiers was found buried in China.
The Romanian dictator ran one of the most feared secret police forces in communist Eastern Europe.
Fifty years ago, a sex scandal threatened to engulf the British government.
An Iraqi official remembers formally identifying Saddam Hussein after his capture by American forces in December 2003. This programme was first broadcast in 2010.
How one young Iraqi, who took a job with the US military, was threatened with death as a traitor.
When US troops first rolled into Baghdad in 2003 there was chaos and looting in much of the city.
Hear one American soldier's story of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003
10 years on from the invasion of Iraq we listen back to memories of that time.
It is 2 years since anti-government demonstrations in Syria sparked off the current conflict.
Giandomenico Picco went to Beirut to try to free western hostages - hear his story.
In 1921 Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London.
