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 the attempt in 1995 to stage a play by the controversial German writer, Rainer Werner Fassbinde, provoked a wave of protest.
Ninety-five years after the October Revolution, hear the account of a young woman living in Moscow, from the BBC archive.
The poet Michael McClure recalls the historic first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl.
In the autumn of 1980 Iraq began one of the longest wars of the 20th century.
It is 10 years since Chechen rebels took a theatre full of people hostage.
Testimonies from the BBC archive on the 1929 stock market crash which triggered the Great Depression.
15 years ago Spain unveiled a museum that was acclaimed as one of the finest modern buildings in the world.
President Andres Pastrana tried to reach a peace deal with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in 1999.
How communist partisans who had resisted the Germans became the losers in the Greek civil war.
It is 50 years since the standoff between the USA and the USSR brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
It is 35 years since the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
The biggest ever scientific search for Scotland's national monster.
In the early 1970s a young Swedish journalist became a courier for the Soviet dissident.
How the Latin American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
In October 1985 Palestinian gunmen took control of a cruise ship in the Red Sea.
