Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,06 Sep 2010,10 mins

Lord Mountbatten

Witness History

Available for over a year

On 5 September 1979, world leaders and European royalty gathered in London for the funeral of Lord Mountbatten. He'd been killed in a bomb attack by Irish republicans. Timothy Knatchbull, Mountbatten's grandson tells Witness about the day he lost, not just his grandfather, but his identical twin brother.

Programme Website
More episodes