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In this month's programme Lucy Hockings introduces us to another five people who have witnessed important moments of the recent past, including the Raja of Mahmudabad who remembers Show more
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Tanya Beckett introduces us to people who have experienced important moments in history, including a man who was with anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, when he was arrested. Show more
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Witness meets a man who was on site to clean up Britain's worst ever nuclear accident, the CIA agent who tracked down Che Guevara in Bolivia and a woman who was taken hostage along Show more
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Tanya Beckett is at the British Library introducing us to five more extraordinary moments of history, including when the first living creature was sent up to orbit the Earth. Show more
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Tanya Beckett introduces us to more people who have experienced extraordinary moments in history, including a Holocaust survivor who was a child in the Belsen concentration camp. Show more
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This month on Witness, Razia Iqbal introduces us to five people whose stories help illustrate the changing nature of royalty in the twentieth century. Show more
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This month on Witness: why Britain expelled 90 Soviet diplomats in the 1970s, how an Australian town killed its residents and how one man and his dog rescued the 1966 World Cup. Show more
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Razia Iqbal brings us five more first-hand stories from recent history, including a remarkable account of the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane by a US warship in 1988. Show more
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This month, we meet the man who saved the dancing bears of Bulgaria a survivor of the Burmese uprising of 1988 and the engineer who tunnelled through Mont Blanc. Show more
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This month on Witness, the man who got America running, a woman who witnessed the Battle of Arnhem in World War Two and we remember the anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko. Show more
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Razia Iqbal brings you five extraordinary testimonies from contemporary history, including a fashion industry pioneer from the days of the Soviet Union. Show more
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We go back to the First World War to find out about the life the soldier, poet and writer Robert Graves and finally discover how the game of Paintball was invented. Show more
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Witness meets a survivor of an Armenian earthquake that killed 20,000, plus we go back to when Britain wanted to join the European community and France said no. Show more
In the run up to International Women's Day, this special edition of Witness will introduce you to five women who have been involved in extraordinary moments of history. Show more
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As part of Cuba Direct, Witness tells the stories of ordinary people who have seen historic events, including the story of the first ever baseball match between the US and Cuba. Show more
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This month, it is 70 years since the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Witness has spoken to a Japanese doctor who saw the bomb fall. Show more