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My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

All this week we've been looking back at moments of resistance that have shaped our world

and today the story of an image which seemed to embody the 1989 anti-government

demonstrations in China. Dave Edmonds has been speaking to the photographer

Stuart Franklin about Tank Man.

It's around midday June 4th, 1989.

Over the past 24 hours, there have been shooting Zim Beijing

as Chinese soldiers move in to Kwell a protest movement. For weeks demonstrators had been

objecting to poor living conditions, censorship and government corruption. If you

remember one image from the government's brutal suppression of that movement, it's

almost certainly a photo of a person who's become known as Tank Man.

A column of about seven tanks started to rumble forward going east down Chang'an Avenue towards the hotel

where we were.

Meet Stuart Franklin, one of the photographers to capture an extraordinary image that day.

As he watched events unfold from his hotel balcony, something unexpected occurred.

A man carrying two white shopping bags appeared out of

nowhere and just stood in the middle of the road waiting for them to come probably

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