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Witness History Episodes

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    Announcing an Ethiopian Coup

    The journalist who became an unwitting voice against Ethiopian ruler Col. Mengistu

  2. Polish Protests in 1968

    As rebellion swept across Europe, Polish students called for democratic change in Poland

  3. The Great Gatsby

    Author F. Scott Fitzgerald as remembered by two close personal links

  4. The Arctic Convoys

    Allied ships battled arctic storms, bombers and U-boats to ferry supplies to Russia in WW2

  5. FA Cup - The Matthews Final

    It is 60 years since England's football legend Stanley Matthews led his team to victory

  6. The Secret US Bombing of Cambodia

    In May 1969 the New York Times revealed that US war planes were secretly bombing Cambodia

  7. Pavarotti's UK Debut

    On May 7th 1963 Luciano Pavarotti first perfomed on a British stage, in Northern Ireland

  8. IRA Hunger Strike

    In 1981 the British government was faced with prisoners on hunger strike

  9. The White Collar Art Collectors

    In 1992 an ex-postal worker and his wife donated a priceless art collection to a gallery

  10. The Children's Crusade

    Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama

  11. Australia's Aboriginal Referendum

    In May 1967 campaigning began across Australia to consolidate Aboriginal rights

  12. The death of Hitler

    On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.

  13. The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

    In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot

  14. The Ballerina and the Coup

    In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.

  15. Muhammad Ali and the Draft

    How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals

  16. The Hitler Diaries Hoax

    Thirty years ago newspapers spent millions on what they thought were Hitler's diaries

  17. Pau Casals

    The acclaimed musician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance to General Franco

  18. Haile Selassie in Jamaica

    Ethiopia's emperor visited Jamaica - the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement - in 1966

  19. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943

  20. The Khmer Rouge take power

    In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia.

  21. The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

    In January 1965 Britain held a state funeral for the man who led it through World War Two.

  22. The discovery of LSD

    It is 70 years since a Swiss chemist stumbled on the controversial hallucinogenic drug.

  23. The First War in the Air

    The story of a young British pilot who survived the world's first war in the air

  24. Mickey Mouse goes to Europe

    When Disney opened a theme park in Europe, just outside Paris it was beset with problems.

  25. Lee Elder at The Masters

    How Lee Elder broke one of the last barriers in US sport in 1975

  26. The Guinea Pig Club

    How severely burnt Second World War airmen learnt to overcome their terrible injuries.

  27. The Great Famine in China

    When Mao Zedong tried to force an industrial revolution in China millions starved to death

  28. Matabeleland Massacres

    In the early 1980s, thousands of civilians were killed in Zimbabwe by the security forces.

  29. James Brown Concert at the Boston Garden

    Held 24 hours after the death of Martin Luther King, the gig went ahead peacefully

  30. Howard Hughes

    The reclusive American billionaire remembered by one of the few journalists to meet him.

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