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 1995, archaeologists in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery.
How peace activists travelled to Baghdad in 2003 to try to protect civilians during the war in Iraq.
In February 1942 tens of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese.
In the 1990s, more than 150,000 died in a conflict between the Algerian military and radical Islamists.
How two child killers shocked Britain 20 years ago.
It is fifty years since the suicide of American poet Sylvia Plath.
It is 30 years since the Derby winning racehorse was stolen at gunpoint.
The great French writer remembered by one of his aristocratic friends and by his faithful maid, Celeste.
Thirty years ago Nigeria expelled up to 2 million African migrants in just a few weeks. Most were Ghanaian.
In February 1992 a group of army officers tried to overthrow the government in Venezuela.
How German forces, close to starvation and running out of ammunition, surrendered to the Soviet Red Army.
How India came to a standstill in 1948 to mourn the Father of the Nation.
How the young tsar was inspired by a hell-raising visit to London in 1698.
The inside story of the construction of one of the world's great monuments in 1887.
In 2002 a weapons store exploded in Lagos, Nigeria. It was one of the largest civil disasters in the country's history.
