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Yesterday's Witness — Storyline

A BBC TV series that explores historical events through firsthand accounts and archival footage.

Cast & Crew

Yesterday's Witness — Series Details

Yesterday's Witness — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: I Have Flown And It's Marvellous (1969-03-24) — In 1903 the aeroplane raised itself off the ground for the first time and stayed aloft for twelve glorious seconds. A new age had begun. In tonight's film pioneer aviators recall t
• E2: George Pearson: Pioneer Film Maker (1969-03-31) — "The old days were the days for filming. I think there was more humanity in our old films. I think it was because we didn't know so much about it. When you know too much about a th
• E3: The Narrowboat Men (1969-04-14) — There's no doubt about it-they were fighters. They used to fight sometimes over a lock, sometimes over a bridge, and sometimes they'd have a fight just to see which was the best ma
• E4: Birth Control in the Twenties (1969-04-21) — Fifty years ago there wasn'a single family planning clinic in this country. Birth Control was described as ' two dirty words.'

  Then Dr. Marie Stopes wrote Married Love and Wise Pa

• E5: Breaking the Silence (1969-04-28) — Wireless before the days of broadcasting

  At the end of the last century the atmosphere began to be torn apart by man-made electrical disturbances. Wireless telegraphy had arrived.

• E6: Long Before the Talkies (1969-05-05) — Some of the artists, cameramen, and others who made or showed or appeared in British films fifty, sixty, seventy years ago-long before the talkies-recall their work as we see it.
• E7: The First War in the Air (1969-05-12) — 'What one doesn't realise today is the extraordinarily heavy rate of casualties. The young pilot always went through the stage of hoping that if he was lucky he'd get through his f
• E8: Prisoners of Conscience: No To The Army (1969-05-19) — Conscription was introduced in Britain in 1916. For political or religious reasons thousands of men refused to fight…

  The popular image of conscientious objectors at the time wa

• E9: Prisoners of Conscience: No To The State (1969-05-26) — In 1916 the archaic British penal system was menaced by a new sort of critic in the cells. Prisons were never to be the same again. "Funny isn't it-you've got ten years for killin

Season 2

• E1: The Battle of Cable Street (1970-01-04) — On 4 October 1936 a part of East London became a battlefield. Nothing like it had been seen before. It was the day when the British Fascists attempted to march through the Jewish E
• E2: Levant Mine Disaster (1970-01-11) — On Monday, 20 October 1919, disaster hit the little villages of St Just and Pendeen, near Lands End. 31 men were lost in an accident which has been described as Cornwall's worst mi
• E3: The Cockney Invasion (1970-01-18) — Until a few years ago the peace and tranquillity of the Kentish countryside were shattered for six weeks every year by an invasion of thousands of Cockney families who came to harv
• E4: The Last Voyage of the Garthpool (1970-01-25) — The Garthpool was the last of the British deep-sea windjammers. Forty years ago she set sail from Hull on what was to be her final voyage, for she was wrecked on the Cape Verde Isl
• E5: The Burning of the Bombing School (1970-02-01) — On the night of 7 September 1936 three men – a university lecturer, a Baptist minister, and a schoolmaster-set fire to a training school for bomber crews being built by the Governm
• E6: A Remnant of a Feudal Society (1970-02-08) — 'The rich man in his castle and the poor man at his gate ' was how it used to be on the old country estates, and there are still a few people who remember what it was like.

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• E7: The Cramlington Train Wreckers (1970-02-15) — Forty-four years ago, some miners went to prison for wrecking a train. There were many acts of sabotage during the General Strike, but this was one that came within inches of disas
• E8: Mission to Serbia (1970-02-22) — In July 1914 the opening shots of the First World War were fired when Austria bombarded the Serbian capital, Belgrade. In Britain, at the outset of the war, the services of trained

Season 3

• E1: Whatever Happened to Music? (1970-05-04) — In the 1920s and 30s the popular music of the day was played by dance and jazz bands, the predecessors of our modern pop groups.

  Some of the band leaders and musicians who made th

• E2: Tolstoy Remembered by his Daughter (1970-05-11) — By the time Alexandra Tolstoy was born her father had written most of his great novels. She is his last surviving child and the twelfth of his 13 children.

  In this film she moving

• E3: The First Boy Scouts (1970-05-18) — In July 1907 a soldier took 20 boys of different social backgrounds to camp on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset. For them it was just a holiday of a special sort: for the s
• E4: Search for a Film Star (1970-05-25) — In the early 1930s an unusual situation existed in the British film industry. The talkies had just come in and there was a shortage of film stars – particularly in the shape of pre
• E5: The Great Scuttle (1970-06-01) — On Midsummer Day 1919 one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of the sea took place in Scapa Flow, the famous anchorage in the Orkney Islands. Seventy-four ships of t
• E6: Two Victorian Girls (1970-06-08) — Two women in their 90s describe their life as Victorian teenagers

  ' We never called ourselves teenagers – but we were certainly Victorians and quite proud to be it,' says Miss Fra

• E7: One Man's Dunkirk (1970-06-15) — There was nothing particularly special about the role played at Dunkirk by Second Class Stoker Duncan Nicol. He was one man among hundreds making up the crews that manned the Littl
• E8: The Abandoned Island (1970-06-22) — Exactly 30 years ago, a few weeks after Dunkirk, the German armies had reached the Normandy coast. They were only eight miles from the British Channel Island of Alderney. The popul
• E9: David Lloyd George, Welshman (1970-07-22) — My Welsh nature is my best inheritance. I glory in it! I am a Welshman before everything

  Lloyd George grew up as a poor boy in a tiny village in North Wales. He became one of the

Season 4

• E1: The Lifeboat That Wouldn't Give Up (1971-04-21) — It was October 1941 and the English Trader, aground on a sandbank, was being pounded to pieces by tremendous seas. Forty-four men were huddled on the bridge, and they saw a huge wa
• E2: The Last People of St Kilda (1971-04-28) — On 29 August 1930, the most isolated community in the British Isles leapt into the headlines. The island of St Kilda had been evacuated. A hundred and ten miles from the Scottish m
• E3: Yes, We Have No Bananas (1971-05-05) — Yes, We Have No Bananas …or much of anything else for that matter.

  This was wartime London, a time when the scale of values was turned upside down and the ordinary things of lif

• E4: Downhill All The Way (1971-05-12) — Ski-ing in Switzerland today is big business, from nursery slopes to Olympic Gold Medals, but it wasn't the Swiss who started it. It all began with an English Methodist Minister an
• E5: The Jarrow Crusade (1971-05-19) — In the 20s and 30s there were many depressed areas in Britain, but Jarrow on Tyneside was one of the worst hit. Some men had been unemployed for 15 years. Jarrow's MP, Ellen Wilkin
• E6: Talkies Come To Britain (1971-05-26) — At the end of 1928 the first "talkies" arrived from Hollywood. They caused a sensation. The public clamoured for more. In British studios – which were still churning out silent fil

Season 5

• E1: Sylvia of Sarawak (1972-04-06) — This film was made with HH Ranee of Sarawak in Barbados last summer – just a few months before her death. She tells of her life as Queen of the Headhunters in North Borneo when she
• E2: The Tithe War (1972-05-25) — Only 40 years ago hundreds of English farmers decided to withhold their Tithes from the Church – and the Law fought back. A poster that sums up the feelings of the time claimed: "I
• E3: Who was Carl Goerdeler? (1972-06-01) — Once a Lord Mayor of Leipzig, he has gone into the records as a man of the anti-Nazi German Resistance. He was tried and eventually executed, as one of the conspirators in the 1944
• E4: The Great Blizzard of 1891 (1972-06-08) — Eighty years later, West Country eye-witnesses describe "the gravest atmospheric disturbance of the century…" and the days that followed. Most of them were, of course, quite youn
• E5: A Way With the Girls (1972-06-15) — In December 1941 the Americans entered the war; and not only did they play a considerable part in winning it, they did a lot to cheer the British women up. With their smart uniform
• E6: To Paris – By Air! (1972-06-22) — Captain's log, 15 July 1919: 'Hendon to Paris, Le Bourget. Flying time 165 minutes, flying at 200 feet. Rain and low clouds all the way. The first civil machine to the Continent'
• E7: The Shell House Raid (1973-08-20) — 21 March 1945: the date of one of the RAF's most daring and difficult low-level raids.

  The target: Shell House in the centre of Copenhagen, which the Gestapo had commandeered as t

• E8: A Cause Worth Fighting For (1973-08-27) — The Spanish Civil War, in the late 30s, could be said to be the first of the ideological wars of our time. Nazi Germany and fascist Italy used Spain as a rehearsal ground for the g
• E9: Five Years' Nightmare (1973-09-03) — The extraordinary story of a teenage girl on the run from the Gestapo in wartime Europe.

  One sunny day in May 1940 the 16-year-old Gergana Taneva was out walking with some friends

• E10: The Iolaire Disaster (1973-09-10) — By the end of the First World War the Isle of Lewis, with a population of only 30,000, had lost 800 men in land and sea battles throughout the world. And then this Hebridean island

Season 6

• E1: The Shell House Raid (1973-08-20) — 21 March 1945: the date of one of the RAF's most daring and difficult low-level raids.

  The target: Shell House in the centre of Copenhagen, which the Gestapo had commandeered as t

• E2: A Cause Worth Fighting For (1973-08-27) — The Spanish Civil War, in the late 30s, could be said to be the first of the ideological wars of our time. Nazi Germany and fascist Italy used Spain as a rehearsal ground for the g
• E3: Five Years' Nightmare (1973-09-03) — The extraordinary story of a teenage girl on the run from the Gestapo in wartime Europe.

  One sunny day in May 1940 the 16-year-old Gergana Taneva was out walking with some friends

• E4: The Iolaire Disaster (1973-09-10) — By the end of the First World War the Isle of Lewis, with a population of only 30,000, had lost 800 men in land and sea battles throughout the world. And then this Hebridean island

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Yesterday's Witness have? 14 season(s) with 81 episodes.

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