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Teaching you the stories that shaped history, art & ideas | Present Witness History on BBC World Service radio | Follow me on X, Bluesky, Insta, TikTok, YouTube
Life in English villages changed enormously in the 1950s.

In this charming clip, Robert Reid revisits Iddesleigh in Devon to see how things changed in the space of seven short years.

BBC Archive from February 1959.

#countryside #CountryLife #tradition
May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough, who's 99 today!

Here's a clip of him from 1955 presenting Zoo Quest on the BBC. Incredible that he's still dominating nature documentaries 70 years later.

#history #nature
May 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The World War 2 Ghost Army's job was to put on a show for an audience who wanted to kill them.

They were a unit of 1k American artists, who created the illusion of being a force of 40k, using the power of theatre.

They saved tens of thousands of lives by drawing enemy fire.

#history #WorldWar2
May 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM