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Witness History Episodes

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    India's Partition - Part Two

    Chandra Joashi was caught on the wrong side of the border during India's partition

  2. India's Partition - Part One

    Saleem was five when his family escaped to the new Muslim country of Pakistan in 1947

  3. The nightclub that changed Ibiza

    In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza and it changed the island forever

  4. Discovering Hale Bopp

    The Hale Bopp Comet was discovered in 1995 which resulted in advances in science

  5. Indonesia's forest fires

    Forest fires in Indonesia caused huge damage and a dense smog across South East Asia

  6. Sweden’s pronoun battle

    How campaigners fought to get ‘hen’ included in Swedish dictionaries.

  7. The resignation of President Nixon

    On 8 August 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign

  8. The return of Asians to Uganda

    When Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, he asked exiled Asians to return to Uganda.

  9. The city shaped by Ugandan Asians

    Some 10,000 Asians made Leicester their home after being expelled from Uganda in 1972.

  10. The exodus of Asians from Uganda

    In 1972, dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had just 90 days to leave Uganda.

  11. When Asians were forced to leave Kenya

    Many Asians migrated to Kenya in the early 20th century but were later forced to leave

  12. Why Asians came to Uganda

    In the early 20th century many South Asians migrated to Uganda in search of a better life

  13. The Leaflet Bomber

    In 1971 communist Bob Newland goes on a secret mission to South Africa to fight Apartheid

  14. The Tangshan Earthquake

    A deadly earthquake hit the city of Tangshan killing hundreds of thousands of people.

  15. Inventing nicotine patches

    Nicotine patches became available in the 1990s but their origins go back to the 1980s.

  16. The Surkov leaks

    In 2016, Ukrainian hackers leaked the emails of Vladimir Putin's aide, Vladislav Surkov.

  17. Ukraine's Revolution on Granite

    In 1990, a hunger strike led by Ukrainian students brought down the Soviet regime in Kyiv

  18. Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco

    In 1996, Wale Adenuga’s sitcom Papa Ajasco first hit Nigerian TV screens.

  19. The Soviet James Bond

    The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973.

  20. Who shot JR?

    The world's reaction to leading man JR, being shot in the American TV series, Dallas.

  21. Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’

    A ground breaking Indian cookery programme broadcast on the BBC launched 40 years ago.

  22. The school for telenovela stars

    In 1987, in Mexico City, a TV station opened a school to train telenovela actors.

  23. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    The contraceptive pill was approved for use in the US in 1960, but in Japan it was 1999.

  24. The man who invented the Pill

    In 1951, Dr Carl Djerassi created the Pill's active ingredient from Mexican wild yams.

  25. When Tunisia led on women's rights

    Tunisia became the first country in the Muslim world to legalise divorce and abortion.

  26. Poland's strict abortion law

    In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism

  27. How abortion was legalised in Great Britain

    The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.

  28. The US’s first gay election candidate

    In 1961 the first openly gay person ran for public office in the United States.

  29. How the smear test was invented

    The discovery by Dr George Papanicolaou in 1928 which led to the smear test

  30. Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

    One child's story of getting caught up in the Nigerian Civil War

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