Witness Witness - history as told by the people who were there. Five days a week we will be talking to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/witness/rss.xml
Sporting Witness: The first Paralympic Games
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8:52
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01/10/11
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In 1960 the 1st Paralympics were held in Rome....
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Witness: Mexico City massacre 1968
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8:57
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03/10/11
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Just before the 1968 Olympics the government cracked down on protestors....
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Witness: The Battle of Cable Street
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8:57
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04/10/11
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It is 75 years since fascists clashed with Jews, socialists and anarchists in London....
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Witness: The Manhattan Project
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9:09
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05/10/11
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Seventy years ago, the American president Franklin Roosevelt gave the go-ahead to the project to develop the world's first atomic bomb....
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Witness: Assassination of President Sadat
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8:51
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06/10/11
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It is 30 years since the President of Egypt was killed....
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Witness: The US Bombing of Afghanistan
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8:58
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07/10/11
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It's 10 years since the first airstrikes on Afghanistan, the start of what the US and its allies called Operation Enduring Freedom....
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Sporting Witness: Frankie Fredericks
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8:58
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08/10/11
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He was Africa's greatest Olympic sprinter....
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Witness: Burton and Taylor remarry
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8:57
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11/10/11
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In 1975 the filmstars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried in Botswana....
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Witness: USS Cole
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8:57
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12/10/11
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On October 12,2000,a US destroyer was attacked by Al Qaeda in the port of Aden....
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Witness: Birth control in the USA
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9:05
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13/10/11
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It is 95 years since Margaret Sanger opened the 1st birth control clinic in the US....
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Witness: Coca cola changes its formula
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9:03
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14/10/11
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In 1985 bosses decided to meddle with the taste of Coke....
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Sporting Witness: Red Sox win World Series at last
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8:59
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15/10/11
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How the Boston Red Sox finally won the baseball World Series in 2004....
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Witness: French Algerian massacre
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8:57
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17/10/11
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On October 17, 1961, French police turned against Algerian demonstrators in Paris...
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Witness: Erich Honecker leaves power
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8:55
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18/10/11
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On October 18, 1989 the East German leader stood down. 3 weeks later the Berlin Wall fell....
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Witness: Canada Kidnap
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9:05
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19/10/11
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In 1970 James Cross, a British diplomat, was taken hostage in Canada. The kidnappers were from the FLQ - the Front de Liberation du Quebec. Mr Cross has been telling Claire Bowes about his fifty nine days at the hands of the kidnappers....
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Witness: George Blake escapes from jail
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9:02
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20/10/11
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This man helped the Soviet spy break out of Wormwood Scrubs....
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Witness: Aberfan
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9:03
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21/10/11
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45 years ago tragedy struck a Welsh mining village....
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Sporting Witness: Rugby unites South Africa
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9:00
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22/10/11
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How victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped bridge the racial divide in Nelson Mandela's new South Africa....
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Witness: Mau Mau uprising
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9:01
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24/10/11
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In October 1956 the leader of the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya was arrested....
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Witness: Nelson Mandela's Autobiography
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8:58
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25/10/11
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In the mid 1970s Nelson Mandela secretly wrote his autobiography in jail. Mac Maharaj was one of the prisoners who helped edit and conceal the manuscript. He speaks to Witness....
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Witness: The Joy of Sex
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9:00
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26/10/11
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It is almost 40 years since a revolutionary book about relationships was published....
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Witness: The American POW who chose China
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9:01
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27/10/11
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After the Korean war ended prisoners could choose communism or capitalism....
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Witness: Indonesian killings
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8:57
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28/10/11
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In the autumn of 1965 a purge of communists began in Indonesia....
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Witness: The Rumble in the Jungle
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9:03
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29/10/11
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In October 1974 two great boxers met in Zaire....
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Witness: Father Jerzy Popieluszko
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9:02
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31/10/11
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The Polish priest was found murdered in 1984....
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Witness: Keith Jarrett in Cologne
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9:04
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01/11/11
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The remarkable jazz concert and how it almost didn't happen....
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Witness: 75 years of Television
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9:05
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02/11/11
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It's 75 years since the BBC launched the first ever regular Television service anywhere in the world....
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Witness: Hungary 1956
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9:01
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03/11/11
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Miklos Gimes was a small boy when his life was turned upside down by the end Hungary's anti-Soviet uprising....
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Witness: Robert Maxwell
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9:01
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04/11/11
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It's twenty years since the newspaper baron Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht....
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Witness: Duncan Goodhew
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8:58
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05/11/11
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British swimmer Duncan Goodhew won Gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics against a background of political controversy....
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Witness: First mission to Mars
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9:00
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07/11/11
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In late November 1964 NASA sent a spacecraft to Mars for the very first time....
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Witness: Desegregation of schools.
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8:57
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08/11/11
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In November 1960 6-year old Ruby Bridges was one of the first black children to go to a white school in New Orleans....
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Witness: The death of Leonid Brezhnev
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9:02
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09/11/11
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He had run the Soviet Union for 18 years by the time he died in November 1982...
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Witness: Fighting in San Salvador
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8:56
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10/11/11
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In November 1989 left-wing rebels entered the capital of El Salvador....
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Witness: Oh What a Lovely War
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9:04
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11/11/11
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A 1960s theatre show helped change attitudes to the First World War...
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Sporting Witness: Ping Pong Diplomats
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9:05
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12/11/11
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How a table tennis tournament in 1971 led to a thaw in relations between the USA and China....
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Witness: Greek student uprising
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9:00
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14/11/11
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How students rebelled against military rule in Greece in 1973....
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Witness: Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
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9:08
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15/11/11
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How an earthquake flattened the capital of Portugal in 1755 and revolutionised European thought....
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Witness: Cathy Come Home
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9:00
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16/11/11
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It is 45 years since a BBC TV drama changed ideas about homelessness in Britain....
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Witness: Kim Philby the spy
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8:58
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17/11/11
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How a Soviet agent fooled British intelligence for decades....
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Witness: Tesla and Edison
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9:00
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18/11/11
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In November 1915 the New York Times suggested two of the greatest pioneers of electricity were to share the Nobel Prize for Physics. We've been finding out why it never happened....
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Witness: Precious McKenzie - South African weight-lifter
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9:04
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19/11/11
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How the tiny South African weight-lifter, Precious Mckenzie, escaped apartheid and eventually won international success....
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Witness: Sadat goes to Israel
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9:07
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21/11/11
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In November 1977 the Egyptian President went to Israel....
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Witness: Georgia's Rose revolution
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9:03
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22/11/11
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In 2003 Georgia's government was overthrown through popular pressure....
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Witness: Mobutu Sese Soko
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9:01
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23/11/11
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How Mobutu Sese Soko ran a kleptocratic dictatorship in Congo for 32 years....
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Witness: Ned Kelly's Last Stand
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9:10
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24/11/11
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How the infamous Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly, was finally captured in 1880....
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Witness: Thalidomide
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9:04
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25/11/11
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50 years ago the drug Thalidomide was found to cause serious damage to the unborn child....
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Sporting Witness: Princess Anne at the Olympics
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9:11
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26/11/11
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The Princess Royal talks to Fred Dove about competing in three-day eventing at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal....
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Witness: Plane spotters in Greece
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9:02
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28/11/11
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In November 2001 a group of British tourists were arrested for spying in Greece....
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Witness: The Battle in Seattle
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8:59
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29/11/11
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In 1999 anti-globalisation protestors brought the American city to a halt....
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Witness: Winter of Discontent
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9:03
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30/11/11
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In 1979 hundreds of thousands of public sector workers went on strike in Britain....
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