I Was There

Kate Adie re-examines her historic coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in June 1989. Kate recalls how she was wounded by gunfire and narrowly escaped death herself as she and her cameraman remained in the line of fire while an estimated 2,000 pro-democracy demonstrators were shot down by Chinese government troops. Kate reviews the reports she made on the ground, with additional insight from leading historian Professor Steve Tsang, and draws on the BBC's archive to assess how film-makers have portrayed China before and after the upheaval.

See raw and emotional witness testimonies from survivors of Norway’s deadliest attack since World War II in Norway Massacre: I Was There. Norway was stunned when a bomb shook its capital Oslo on 22 July 2011, killing 8 people…but what happened next sent a shiver down the spine of the world. Brutal mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik calmly slaughtered 69 helpless victims at a Norwegian Labour Party camp on the remote island of Utøya, many of them teenagers.

Kate Adie re-examines her historic coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in June 1989. Kate recalls how she was wounded by gunfire and narrowly escaped death herself as she and her cameraman remained in the line of fire while an estimated 2,000 pro-democracy demonstrators were shot down by Chinese government troops. Kate reviews the reports she made on the ground, with additional insight from leading historian Professor Steve Tsang, and draws on the BBC's archive to assess how film-makers have portrayed China before and after the upheaval.

Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person.