BBC World Service - Witness History, Witness Archive 2015 (original) (raw)
Witness Archive 2015
History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
How the world waited for a potential global computer meltdown on New Year's Eve 1999
Release date:
31 Dec 2015
In 1916, the infamous holy man Grigori Rasputin, was murdered by Russian aristocrats
Release date:
29 Dec 2015
In 1846, a group of US pioneers were trapped in the mountains over the winter.
Release date:
28 Dec 2015
On Christmas Day 2003, a British space craft was due to land on Mars to look for life
Release date:
25 Dec 2015
A controversial new computer game designed in Scotland became a surprise hit in 1997
Release date:
25 Dec 2013
A former Hollywood child star remembers filming the classic Christmas movie in 1946.
Release date:
24 Dec 2015
America's legendary military commander, General George Patton, died in December 1945
Release date:
21 Dec 2015
In 1995 the first disability rights legislation was passed by India's parliament.
Release date:
18 Dec 2015
The actor behind the galaxy's most famous protocol droid remembers the first Star Wars
Release date:
17 Dec 2015
In 1974, Ernő Rubik invented the world's best selling puzzle: the Rubik's Cube
Release date:
16 Dec 2015
The seminal alternative rock band play their first gig at a high school in New Jersey.
Release date:
11 Dec 2015
After the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan in 2001 the hunt for Osama bin Laden began.
Release date:
09 Dec 2015
Thousands of British and Indian troops spent five months trapped in Kut, Iraq in WW1
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08 Dec 2015
Thousands of Cuban troops fought with Angola's Marxist government forces in the civil war
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04 Dec 2015
On 3 December 1967, two brothers carried out the first heart transplant operation
Release date:
03 Dec 2015
How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base
Release date:
02 Dec 2015
How a devastating air raid on Bari during WW2 led to the deadly release of mustard gas
Release date:
01 Dec 2015