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Witness History Episodes

  1. Baboon Aids Experiment

    Aids patient Jeff Getty was given a bone marrow transplant from a baboon in December 1995

  2. The Kyoto Protocol

    In December 1997, the first global treaty on greenhouse gas emissions was agreed in Kyoto

  3. Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

    Drummer Jimmy Cobb recalls playing on Kind of Blue, the most successful jazz album ever

  4. The Hunt for BRCA2

    The frantic search for one of the hereditary 'breast cancer genes'

  5. The 'Execution' of Oliver Cromwell

    In 1661 the body of the British ruler Oliver Cromwell was dug up for ritual execution

  6. The Holiday Inn in Beirut

    During the Lebanese civil war the hotel district in Beirut became a battlefield.

  7. The Release of Terry Anderson

    Journalist Terry Anderson was freed after being held hostage in Beirut

  8. Britain's First Woman MP

    On this day 100 years ago Lady Nancy Astor was elected to British parliament

  9. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

    How California students won the right to demonstrate on university property

  10. The Hong Kong Riots of 1967

    Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.

  11. The Destruction of the Bridge at Mostar, Bosnia

    The famous landmark the old Ottoman bridge was destroyed in the Balkans War in 1993

  12. Australia's Rabbit Plague

    The battle against billions of rabbits devastating the Australian countryside

  13. Kraftwerk

    In November 1974, West German band Kraftwerk released their seminal album Autobahn

  14. The Death of Yukio Mishima

    What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?

  15. India's Eton

    In 1935 India's Doon School opened, producing prime ministers, authors and businessmen

  16. The Death of Quentin Crisp

    The flamboyant gay author of The Naked Civil Servant died on 21 November, 1999

  17. The Nuremberg Trials

    The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials

  18. Saddam Hussein Trial

    In November 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in a Baghdad courtroom

  19. President Mitterrand's Secret Second Family

    In 1994, a French magazine revealed that President Mitterrand had a secret daughter

  20. The Murder of El Salvador's Jesuits

    The shocking killings that became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war.

  21. Botswana Diamond Discovery

    Manfred Marx discovery in the Kalahari transformed Botswana's economy after independence

  22. The Killing of Rohana Wijeweera

    The death of left-wing, Sri Lankan rebel, Rohana Wijeweera in government custody in 1989

  23. Rhodesia Declares Independence

    This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war

  24. The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

    In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes

  25. Spies in Suburbia

    A Soviet spy ring was uncovered operating from a London bungalow in 1961

  26. The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya

    In October 2006, the campaigning Russian journalist was shot outside her Moscow flat.

  27. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Hear from two East Germans who were among the first to cross on 9 November, 1989

  28. The Soweto Uprising

    In 1976, schoolchildren marched in protest at the apartheid regime in South Africa.

  29. The Disappearance of Lord Lucan

    The criminal mystery as told by the son of the murdered nanny

  30. Voting Against the War on Terror

    Only one person voted against giving the US president extra powers after 9/11: Barbara Lee

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