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Yesterday's Witness

  • 1969-1980
  • 13 seasons
  • Family

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

Season 3 Episode Guide

9 Episodes 1970 - 1971

Episode 1

Whatever Happened to Music?

Episode 2

Tolstoy Remembered by his Daughter

31 mins

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. Life for the Tolstoy family on their country estate south of Moscow was often turbulent. Alexandra stood in the middle of the battle which developed between her parents, and tried to protect her father against the excesses of his wife's hysteria. In 1910, tired and sick, Tolstoy took the step he had contemplated for so many years - and left for the Caucasus to search for peace and solitude.

Episode 3

The First Boy Scouts

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Episode 4

Search for a Film Star

Episode 5

The Great Scuttle

Episode 6

Two Victorian Girls

Episode 7

One Man's Dunkirk

Episode 8

The Abandoned Island

Episode 9

David Lloyd George, Welshman

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