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Listen to Witness: Archive 2011, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 259 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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In 1958, a mixed-race couple, Mildred and Richard Loving, were arrested and then banished from the US state of Virginia for breaking its law...
On 1 February 1960, four young black men began a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina against the racial segregation of shops and restauran...
The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode on buses, testing out whether bus stations were complying with the Supreme Court rul...
*** This programme was first broadcast on 25 October, 2011 *** In the mid 1970s Nelson Mandela began writing his autobiography in prison, on...
The armed wing of the ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, when a bomb was planted at municipal offices in Durban. Ronnie Kasril...
A snapshot of the attitudes and emotions on both sides of the racial divide as the South Africa authorites cemented the foundations of Apart...
In 1948 nearly 500 pioneers travelled from the Caribbean on the Empire Windrush. The passage cost £28, 10 shillings. Passenger Sam King desc...
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In 1984 one of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow. Hear from Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian who created it, and Henk...
The children's writer Enid Blyton, was one of the most popular authors of the 20th Century. Books such as her Famous Five series were read b...
In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow. He had spent seven years in internal exile. His relea...
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As we approach Christmas we look back at the turning point in the career of the world's most famous evangelist - Billy Graham. He's preached...
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Christmas 1984 was a difficult time for British miners who had been on strike for nine months. They had taken industrial action to try to sa...
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In 1971, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan after nine months of war. Kamal Hossain, a leading political figure, was jailed during th...
In December 1986 Kazakhs began protesting against Moscow's rule. The young demonstrators were objecting to a Kremlin decision to put a Russi...
As the former leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega faces charges of murder in his home country we take you back over 20 years to the moment he w...
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