BBCWitness
@BBCWitness
Witness is the daily history programme from the BBC World Service. We're no longer using this account, but have preserved it for archiving purposes.
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We’re not using this account anymore, please follow @bbcworldservice for tweets about Witness and other BBC World Service stuff.Thank you.
"I saw him feeding Jackie lamb with a fork". The secret romance between Onassis and JFK's widow in the 1960s. tinyurl.com/pp8svyx
"On the big toe, there was a tag. That said 'unknown'". 40 yrs on, widow Terry recalls finding JM Kariuki's body.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…
On Sporting Witness, the Aussies who played a football tournament in Vietnam at the height of the war. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…
The day troops burst into Spain’s parliament and held 350 MPs hostage bbc.in/1DoRI7Y
The late, great rowing coach Dan Topolski shared his Boat Race Mutiny memories with Sporting Witness. tinyurl.com/kgvnq9p
On Sporting Witness, the great woman cyclist Beryl Burton. Tune in for tales of world records and cups of tea. tinyurl.com/nmsjdcy
What happened after BBC Witness spoke to Matee Ullah Khan about rebuilding #Swat Ski School destroyed by the #Taliban bbc.in/1A2VlPq
Great tale from the slopes @rebeccakesby1 @bbcwitness The ski school that defied the Taliban bbc.in/1KQXYZm
Today's Witness on @bbcworldservice the story of Minamata #Japan - 1000's were poisoned by mercury contaminated fish bbc.in/1DZTVpM
I've been to #Damascus to interview President Assad. It's on tomorrow (Tuesday) on the BBC from 0600 GMT.
@Sinabhfuil actually it is on our Facebook site. Just search for BBC Witness.
On this day in 1955 South African police started to dismantle #Sophiatown, a multi-racial suburb of #Johannesburg bbc.in/1DYO3gf
As #Ghana prepare for the @afcon_2015 final, we go back to their famous 1965 win in Tunisia. Osei Kofi remembers: tinyurl.com/k2ptf6l
The ultimate thrill? Watch the latest Witness film on pioneering surfer Jeff Clark and Mavericks. tinyurl.com/m6vh92v @mavericksurf.
Bringing "democracy" to Russia with the Big Mac. 25 years of #McDonalds in Moscow: bbc.in/1EFOT5b
On this day in 1965 the great #winstonchurchill was buried. LISTEN to his grand-daughter Emma Soames: bbc.in/1ByWlsx
On this day 50 years ago, #winstonchurchill Britain's wartime prime minister was buried. His grand-daughter remembers bbc.in/1yeifjT
On Sporting Witness, @brianboitano remembers winning ice-skating's Battle of the Brians at the 1988 Winter Olympics. bbc.in/1z0XfzC
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BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Skating's Battle of the Brians
The 1988 Winter Olympic showdown between American Brian Boitano and Canadian Brian Orser
A rare glimpse into the mind-set of a former US drone operator: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…
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