Witness History: Witness Archive 2015

About Witness History: Witness Archive 2015

History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.

Publisher

BBC World Service

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Dec 2013

Latest episode

9 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

254 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Feb 2021

   Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike

   In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised a benefit concert to support striking coal-miners. They sent the money they raised to a mining village in Wales. The miners' strike was the biggest industrial dispute in British history. Hear from Mike Jackson, one of the gay men inspired by the miners' struggle.

2. 

   31 Dec 2015

   The Millennium Bug

   There was a frenzy of celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999. But amid the partying, there was also some anxiety over the effects of a potential global computer meltdown, the so-called Millennium Bug - or Y2K. (Photo: The White House Y2K Crisis Centre in Washington in 1999. Credit : AP)

3. 

   30 Dec 2015

   The Poster Boy for the Communist System

   In 1935, Alexei Stakhanov, a coal miner, became a Soviet celebrity. He invented a more efficient coal production method and started a movement to encourage innovation amongst Soviet workers. His daughter, Violetta Stakhanova, tells Dina Newman about her father's achievements and his eventual downfall. Photo: Alexei Stakhanov at work, 1935. Credit: Stakhanov family

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

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