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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: The 1924 Paris Olympics
Description: The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924.More than 3,000 athletes from 44 nations took part, of which only 135 were women, in 17 sports.Rachel Naylor goes through the BBC archive for interviews with two British medallists - the sprinter Harold Abrahams and the tennis player Kitty Godfree.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take...