Albert Luthuli Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
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Witness: Archive 2010
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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20 of 39 episodesJamaica Slave Rebellion
*** Contains descriptions that some listeners may find upsetting *** Enslaved Africans are forced to work in sugar cane fields - the hours a...
Chiapas Uprising
People in the Chiapas region, led by the charismatic, ski-mask wearing, sub-commandante Marcos, rose up against the Mexican state. They call...
Hamlet
The play Hamlet can tell us a great deal about the time in which it was written. At the turn of the 16th century England was faced with many...
Assad and Syria
Hafez al Assad was the Syrian Defence Minister in the winter of 1970 when his struggle for power came to a head. His former friend, the hard...
The Great Escape
The film, The Great Escape, has become an all-time favourite. It is about a mass breakout from a German prison camp during World War 2. Flig...
Christmas Truce
For several days over Christmas in 1914 the fighting stopped on the battlefields of the First World War. British and German soldiers left th...
Andrei Sakharov
The nuclear physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov had spent seven years in internal exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. His ret...
Georgia in crisis
Christmas 1991 was a difficult time for the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Economic and political difficulties crippled the government....
Lockerbie
On December 21 1988 a US passenger plane blew up over Scotland. Pan Am flight 103 was heading for the USA when a bomb exploded on board, kil...
US invasion of Panama
On 20 December 1989 more than 20,000 US soldiers descended on Panama. General Manuel Noriega - the country's leader - sought refuge with the...
Washington Snipers
It is seven years since one of the Washington snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo, was convicted of murder. He and John Allen Muhammad had terrorised th...
Operation Desert Fox
On 16 December 1998 the US and Britain began a four day bombardment of Iraq. Their justification for Operation Desert Fox was Iraq's failure...
Siege of Grozny
"The destruction of Grozny was apocalyptic... I saw a lot of deaths. I saw people who got wounded by shrapnel from mortar fire and they were...
Capture of Saddam Hussein
Hiding in a hole in the ground, bearded and unkempt, the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was dragged blinking into the light by Am...
Argentina's disappeared
After eight years of military rule, thousands of mainly young, left-wing, Argentinians had gone missing - 'the disappeared'. Miriam Lewin wa...
Smallpox Eradication
Smallpox was once one of the most feared diseases in the world - disfiguring and often deadly. Donald Henderson is the American doctor who l...
John Lennon
It is exactly 30 years since the former Beatle, John Lennon, was shot dead in New York. Two days before John Lennon was killed, he spent sev...
Pearl Harbour
When Japanese bombers and fighter planes attacked the US fleet in the Pacific it came as a huge surprise to many. Listen to some archive rec...
Somalia Marines
In December 1992, the US sent armed troops into Somalia to help protect aid convoys carrying food to the hungry. They called it Operation Re...
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