Witness
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
- Description
- The story of our times told by the people who were there.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-30 17:51
- last episode published
- 2025-01-30 10:00
- publication frequency
- 1.43 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2291
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-30 | A series of unprecedented teachers’ strikes temporarily shut most of New York’s schools in the late 1960s, provoked by an ongoing dispute over whether parents could have a say in the running of their children’s schools. ‘Community control’ over the cit... |
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| 2025-01-29 | In the aftermath of World War Two, children were left orphaned, or separated from their families. They were forced to flee East Prussia when the Red Army advanced.Whilst trying to survive, on their way to Lithuania, they were likened to hungry wolves r... |
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| 2025-01-28 | On 23 August 1989, approximately two million people joined hands to form a 690-kilometre human chain across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.It was a key moment in the protests in Eastern Europe that became known as the Singing Revolution.In 2010, Damien ... |
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| 2025-01-27 | On 16 March 1988, loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone killed three mourners and injured 60 others attending a funeral for IRA members killed in Gibraltar.The so-called Gibraltar Three had been shot dead by the British Army and brought home to Belfast t... |
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| 2025-01-24 | In August 1995, Microsoft released a new operating system - Windows 95 – following one of the computer industry’s biggest and most expensive marketing campaigns. Queues formed outside shops at midnight as people around the world waited to be among the ... |
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| 2025-01-23 | On 29 November 1995, Tibetan Buddhist leaders attended a secret ceremony in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. They were present to witness the choice of the next Panchen Lama, a position in Tibetan Buddhism second in importance to the Dalai Lama. They were m... |
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| 2025-01-22 | On 27 March 1995, fashion heir Maurizio Gucci was shot dead outside his office in Milan, Italy.Five people, including his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, and her clairvoyant, were jailed in connection with his murder. The media called it the 'trial of the ... |
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| 2025-01-21 | In 1995, an obscure Japanese religion launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo metro. Members of the doomsday cult, which called itself Aum Shinrikyo, dropped plastic bags containing sarin liquid on the floors of five different trains and then pierced t... |
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| 2025-01-20 | During a 17-year bombing campaign, an elusive terrorist known as the Unabomber killed three and injured 23 Americans. In 1995, he contacted The New York Times and The Washington Post promising to stop his terror attacks if they published his 35,000-wor... |
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| 2025-01-17 | Drum was considered to be the first African lifestyle magazine with a readership of 40,000 in its 1950s heyday. It was first printed in South Africa in 1951 and became a voice of resistance during Apartheid. Drum hit newsstands in 12 countries across t... |
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