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Witness History Episodes

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    The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

    Two Maids of Honour at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories

  2. Sarin attack in Syria

    How UN inspectors investigated a devastating chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013

  3. Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world

    A Syrian family living in Za'atari Refugee Camp for nine years share their experiences.

  4. Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells

    How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US

  5. The attack on Lod Airport

    A survivor on how gunmen opened fire at an Israeli airport in 1972, killing 26 people.

  6. Georgia O'Keeffe

    One of the world's most famous woman artists remembered by her assistant

  7. The World Festival of Black Arts

    A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966

  8. The museum of banned Russian art

    How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum

  9. The last days of Frida Kahlo

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

  10. Meeting Picasso

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

  11. Chasing the Marcos millions

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

  12. Shanghai at War

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

  13. The first McDonald's in Moscow

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

  14. The murder of Kelso Cochrane

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

  15. People Power in the Philippines

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

  16. The war in Transnistria

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

  17. Egypt's bread riots

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

  18. Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe

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

  19. China opens up to capitalism

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

  20. Soviet nuclear missile alert

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

  21. Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

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

  22. The chemistry of cannabis

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

  23. Roe v Wade

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

  24. Surviving the Falkands War

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

  25. The sinking of the Belgrano

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

  26. Algeria's rebel footballers

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

  27. The Algerians who fought for France

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

  28. Algeria: The Massacre in Paris

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

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

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

  30. Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber

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

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