Communism
Witness History. The end of Stalinist rule in Albania. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted31 December 2021
Arts & Ideas. Romanian history and literature. Audio, 45 minutes
Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Witness History. The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Audio, 9 minutes
On November 4th 1956 Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest crushing the anti-Soviet uprising
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted7 October 2021
Witness History. Surviving the fall of Saigon. Audio, 9 minutes
When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Animal Farm by George Orwell. Audio, 210 minutes
The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Witness History. When The Queen met Ceaușescu. Audio, 9 minutes
It was the first time a communist leader had been given a full state visit to the UK
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Inside an East German jail. Audio, 9 minutes
Vera Lengsfeld was imprisoned by the communist authorities in East Germany in 1988
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. East Germany's nudists. Audio, 9 minutes
The communist regime restricted many things in the GDR but not the freedom to go naked
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann. Audio, 9 minutes
East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in 1976
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution. Audio, 9 minutes
Kim Gordon and his parents were locked up for two years in a hotel in China in the 1960s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Cuba's blindness epidemic. Audio, 9 minutes
Up to 50,000 Cubans were inexplicably struck down with sight loss in the early 1990s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. China's trailblazing foreign students. Audio, 9 minutes
We hear from one of the first students to study overseas after the Cultural Revolution
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted27 June 2021
- AttributionBBC
School for Communists. Audio, 28 minutes
Alexei Sayle shares his memories of being a young communist with Michael Rosen and others.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. In Albania, Setting Off. Audio, 14 minutes
It's the mid-1990s and Albania is in turmoil, so Joanna Robertson sets off to live there.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
