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 60s muse on Mick Jagger and a key decade for popular culture.
It's 20 years since documents were uncovered proving the existence of a torture network across South America.
The story of the 1992 film credited with launching Nigeria's huge movie industry
How a German teenager flew to Moscow during the Cold War.
On December 6 1989 a college shooting in Montreal left 14 women dead.
How a cloud of poisonous fog covered London in 1952, bringing the city to a standstill and killing around 5,000 people.
It is 80 years since England and Australia fell out over cricket.
On December 3 1984 a leak of poisonous gas killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal.
How former US soldier George Jorgensen transformed himself into the glamorous Christine.
In November 1979 the Canadian Embassy in Tehran hid 6 US diplomats.
The story of one of the most successful art forgers of the 20th Century.
How French surgeons gave a 38-year-old woman a new face in 2005.
In 1975 the Soviet navy was ordered to sink a mutinous warship in the Baltic sea.
It is almost 20 years since the first webcam went online, it provided pictures of a coffee pot.
The man accused of assassinating President John F Kennedy had spent more than 2 years as a defector to the Soviet Union.
