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:
How a play in which nothing happens revolutionised 20th century theatre.
55 years ago Charles Keeling began the detailed and long-term measurement of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It is 35 years since the white newspaper editor was forced into exile.
It is 40 years since the birth of the computer gaming industry.
In December 1999 a young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show.
In December 1980 thousands were killed in the Nigerian city of Kano, following an uprising by a radical Islamic sect.
It is 40 years since the US started its heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War.
On Christmas Day 1989, the Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, were shot dead by firing squad.
In 1964 the British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa.
It is 15 years since the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone in an attempt to stop the spread of a brain disease.
In December 2003 the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi announced he had given up trying to build weapons of mass destruction.
Listen to Harrison Schmitt, one of the last men to walk on the Moon
How Britain's top paleontologists fell for the biggest scientific hoax in history - a skull mistaken for the "Missing Link" in human evolution.
How exiles from the Nazis helped the British bug the cells of German prisoners-of-war.
Ancient Egyptian remains discovered under the waters of the harbour in Alexandria.
