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Witness History Episodes

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    Bradford riots

    It is 10 years since riots engulfed the city of Bradford in the North of England

  2. Piper Alpha

    We hear from a survivor from the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster that killed 167 people

  3. Prince Charles and Princess Diana in the USA

    In 1985 the Royal couple made their first joint visit to America

  4. Ron Kovic - Ex US Marine and peace activist

    How ex-US Marine Ron Kovic became a peace activist after being paralysed in Vietnam

  5. Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon

    In 1975 he became the first African-American man to win the tennis tournament.

  6. Camaron - Flamenco Legend

    How a gypsy singer called Camaron de la Isla revolutionised the world of flamenco

  7. Secret war in Yemen

    In the 1960s, British mercenaries joined the fighting in Yemen's civil war

  8. Elian Gonzalez

    The six-year-old boy caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between Miami and Havana

  9. President Kennedy's Visit to Ireland

    President Kennedy's emotional visit to Ireland shortly before his assassination in 1963

  10. Montserrat volcano

    In June 1997 the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat

  11. Fermat's Last Theorem

    Andrew Wiles on solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries

  12. Operation Barbarossa

    An eyewitness account of the launch of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union

  13. The Voyage of the Empire Windrush

    The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948

  14. Australian evacuee

    During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs

  15. Rape of Nanjing

    How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937

  16. Nureyev defects to the West

    On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union

  17. East German Uprising

    In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

  18. Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

    The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper

  19. OJ Simpson car chase

    The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994

  20. Italian internees

    When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned

  21. Mixed race marriage victory in US

    How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US

  22. Attack on the Osirak reactor

    It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq

  23. Imprisonment in Syria

    As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime

  24. World's First Environment Conference

    The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit

  25. The early days of HIV/Aids

    The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus

  26. Retreat from Dunkirk

    One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk

  27. The Massacre of Baghdad's Jews

    The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews

  28. Attack at Lod Airport

    It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv

  29. Assassination of Trujillo

    It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator

  30. Pakistan nuclear test

    It is 13 years since Pakistan first tested a nuclear weapon

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