Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds BBC World Service and now Witness History with me William Kramer.

With the world's attention focused on Beirut I'm taking you back to another time of crisis in the

Lebanese capital. In 1975 one of the city's glitzy suburbs was engulfed in a

battle between Christian fighters and Muslim and Druze militias.

The fighting took place between luxury hotels

and came to symbolise the disintegration of a vibrant and cosmopolitan city.

In 2014 I spoke to two former hotel workers.

The newest and most Modern of the downtown hotels was the Holiday Inn.

It was formerly inaugurated in 1974 and the American Soul Group The Platters played at the opening of the nightclub.

A thrusting modernist building, the hotel was 23 stories high. Glass elevators led to a restaurant on the top floor, which Nabil Chartuni, the former vice president of Holiday Inn in the Middle East, remembers well.

The most magnificent was a revolving restaurant on top, was the only restaurant that was revolving in Lebanon

and when you go up there you are able to dine and look at the snow in the mountains

and the sea at your feet.

And there were all kinds of things on the menu, ducks,

allorange, steaks tartar they would do in front of you and it was absolutely a

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