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 CIA plane was shot down over Nicaragua carrying weapons for anti-government "Contra" rebels.
How a bloody battle in Somalia transformed US foreign policy in 1993.
When the Taliban overran the Afghan capital one of their first acts was to kill the former President Najibullah.
Twelve million ethnic Germans were forced from their homes in Central Europe in the wake of World War Two.
In September 2000 the Israeli politician made a controversial visit to the holy site.
Almost 30 years ago 38 prisoners broke out of a high-security jail in Northern Ireland.
It is 55 years since a revolutionary kind of musical hit Broadway.
How the Oxford professor, J R R Tolkien, invented one of the most popular fantasy novels of all time.
How the US government sent mules to Afghanistan in the 1980s to help Mujahideen fighters.
The story of an Ethiopian soldier who became a war hero in Korea
Almost a million Poles were exiled to Siberia at the beginning of World War Two.
How the American hip hop star Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting.
It is 30 years since an Australian woman was accused of murdering her baby who she said was stolen by a wild dog.
It is 35 years since the anti-apartheid activist died in a police cell.
How a teenage Indian girl took revenge on men who had abused her.
