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Witness History Episodes

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    Jamaican Bobsled Team

    At the 1988 Winter Olympics Jamaica fielded its first ever bobsled team.

  2. Zimbabwe Referendum

    Ten years ago Zimbabweans thought a vote against President Mugabe was a new beginning.

  3. Bombing of Dresden

    Witness hears from a survivor of the firebombing of Dresden.

  4. Salman Rushdie's Fatwa

    Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses enraged Muslims around the world.

  5. Charlie Wilson

    Former US Congressman Charlie Wilson, who has just died, left his mark on Afghanistan.

  6. Surviving Robben Island

    Ahmed Kathrada's time in prison alongside Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, South Africa

  7. The Rivonia Trial

    In 1964, Nelson Mandela was put on trial for treason with seven other ANC activists

  8. McCarthyism

    The McCarthy era in the US marked a low point in anti-communist paranoia and witch hunts.

  9. Northern Ireland Hunger Strikes

    In 1981 Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland staged a series of hunger strikes.

  10. Facebook

    It's exactly six years since the birth of Facebook - now it has 350 million users.

  11. The Wind of Change

    It's 50 years since Harold Macmillan spoke of a wind of change blowing through Africa.

  12. Rationing in Britain

    In the early 1950s Britain was still so badly-off that food and fuel had to be rationed.

  13. Palestine Post

    In the months before the creation of Israel -Jerusalem was a dangerous place to be.

  14. Gandhi

    The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948

  15. Meeting Osama

    What is Osama bin Laden really like? Witness talks to someone who knows.

  16. Hitler's Book

    The story of a young American soldier and the book he found in Hitler's house.

  17. Somalia 1991

    What was it like living in Mogadishu at the height of Somalia's civil war?

  18. Idi Amin

    Ugandan dictator Idi Amin took power in 1971, but it ended in disarray in 1979

  19. Witness

    Queen Victoria died exactly 109 years ago today - we hear from her shocked subjects.

  20. Haiti Duvaliers

    How the father and son regime of the Duvaliers affected the already poor country of Haiti.

  21. History of TV

    How John Logie Baird tried to convince people that TV could work.

  22. Soviet Veterans

    Over twenty years ago Soviet troops were fighting in Afghanistan - we hear from veterans.

  23. Shah into Exile

    Two women tell their stories of exile because of the revolution in Iran over 30 years ago.

  24. Biafra

    It's exactly 40 years since the Biafran war of independence from Nigeria ended in failure.

  25. Armenian killings

    Remembering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians over 90 years ago.

  26. Yemen

    Yemen is the news because of al-Qaeda, but in the 90s, its civil war made the headlines.

  27. Revolution at the LSE

    How students in the sixties brought the London School of Economics to a halt.

  28. The Battle of Algiers

    One man's experience of the Algerian war of Independence.

  29. Irish War of Independence

    Memories of the Irish war of independence which began over 90 years ago this month.

  30. Korean War

    It's sixty years since the beginning of the Korean War - one man remembers that time.

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