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Witness History Episodes

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    The last days of Frida Kahlo

    The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life

  2. Meeting Picasso

    A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s

  3. Chasing the Marcos millions

    The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president

  4. Shanghai at War

    A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s

  5. The first McDonald's in Moscow

    The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990

  6. The murder of Kelso Cochrane

    How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry

  7. People Power in the Philippines

    In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos

  8. The war in Transnistria

    The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s

  9. Egypt's bread riots

    How huge unrest forced the Egyptian government to ditch a plan to increase bread prices

  10. Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe

    How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010

  11. China opens up to capitalism

    How China's Communist rulers established the country's Special Economic Zones in May 1980

  12. Soviet nuclear missile alert

    The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.

  13. Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

    A first-hand account of taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s

  14. The chemistry of cannabis

    How an Israeli scientist discovered the crucial compounds in the widely-used drug

  15. Roe v Wade

    How a young lawyer from Texas got the US abortion laws changed in 1973

  16. Surviving the Falkands War

    British soldier Simon Weston was severely burned in an Argentine attack in 1982.

  17. The sinking of the Belgrano

    An Argentine survivor remembers being torpedoed by the British during the Falklands War.

  18. Algeria's rebel footballers

    Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958

  19. The Algerians who fought for France

    The bitter experiences of the fighters who opposed their own country's independence.

  20. Algeria: The Massacre in Paris

    How French police turned on Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961, killing dozens.

  21. The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience

    A first-hand account of the brutal French tactics against Algerian independence fighters

  22. Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber

    Zohra Drif targeted an ice-cream parlour in Algiers during the war of independence

  23. The battle for Kinder Scout

    How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.

  24. Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising

    A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979

  25. Britain's Soviet spy scandal

    In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.

  26. Women's rights in Basra

    How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour

  27. Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme

    The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.

  28. The World Wide Web

    How the World Wide Web was created

  29. How Tinder changed the dating game

    How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance

  30. Greece's Great Famine

    How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.

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