THEY SAW IT HAPPEN - Eyewitness Accounts

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They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima (more info)
Kerry Shale, reader
Tom George, reader
Steve Hodson, reader
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. Introduction - 2:58
2. The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC - 7:40
3. The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC: Next day the combat was renewed - 7:32
4. Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC - 3:18
5. The Fire of Rome, 64 AD - 3:57
6. Nero persecutes the Christians, 64 AD - 2:06
7. The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD - 6:24
8. The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD: Now as Eleazar was proceeding... - 4:40
9. The eruption of Vesuvius, 79 AD - 6:06
10. The Crusaders liberate Jerusalem, 1099 - 6:09
11. The murder of Thomas Becket, 1170 - 5:11
12. The Black Death, 1348 - 10:11
13. The death of Magellan, 1521 - 4:47
14. The Pilgrim Fathers' first few days, 1620 - 4:45

They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima (more info)
Kerry Shale, reader
Tom George, reader
Steve Hodson, reader
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. Execution of Charles I, 1649 - 6:54
2. The Great Fire of London, 1666 - 5:50
3. The Siege of Londonderry, 1689 - 5:06
4. The Salem Witch Trials, 1692 - 6:05
5. Cock fighting, 1710 - 3:30
6. Executions, 1728 - 3:39
7. The Boston Tea Party, 1773 - 6:53
8. Slavery in the West Indies, 1774 - 2:31
9. Declaration of Independence, 1776 - 5:02
10. The first aerial voyage, 1784 - 4:15
11. Marie Antoinette at the opera, 1792 - 2:09
12. Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 - 5:52
13. Fanny Burney glimpses Napoleon, 1802 - 3:40
14. The death of Nelson, 1805 - 7:31
15. Taken by the press gang, 1811 - 4:38
16. A slave owner's view, 1817 - 1:55
17. One of the first railway passengers, 1830 - 3:44

They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima (more info)
Kerry Shale, reader
Tom George, reader
Steve Hodson, reader
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. The exploitation of children, 1831 - 3:10
2. The coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838 - 4:26
3. London - prostitutes, 1839 - 3:56
4. A sale of slaves, 1846 - 2:42
5. Dickens criticises public executions, 1849 - 4:09
6. The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 - 8:11
7. The American Civil War, 1862 - 7:57
8. The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone, 1871 - 2:14
9. The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876 - 3:27
10. A puff of opium in Tiger Bay, 1883 - 6:16
11. White slavery in London, 1888 - 7:18
12. Saturday 30 June 1888 - 4:10
13. Paul Gaugin chooses a bride, 1892 - 7:05
14. The Battle of Magersfontein, 1899 - 2:20
15. The first flight, 1903 - 7:47
16. The San Francisco earthquake, 1906 - 4:10

They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima (more info)
Kerry Shale, reader
Tom George, reader
Steve Hodson, reader
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. The San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (continued) - 3:04
2. The first flight across the English Channel, 1909 - 3:23
3. The arrest of Dr Crippen, 1910 - 5:49
4. The sinking of the Titanic, 1912 - 2:48
5. Gas attack - World War I, 1916 - 6:41
6. Realism in films, 1920 - 4:41
7. Opening Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922 - 6:14
8. Lindbergh flies the Atlantic, 1927 - 4:56
9. The Battle of Britain, 1940 - 6:12
10. The London Blitz, 1940 - 5:08
11. The testimony of Rudolf Hess, 1946 - 7:42
12. The attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941 - 6:49
13. A Japanese view of the attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941 - 6:25
14. Hiroshima, 1945 - 9:31

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