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Witness History Episodes

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    The world's first environment conference

    Countries first tried to tackle the damage humans are doing to the planet in 1972

  2. Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'

    The US scientist who began recording carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in 1958

  3. Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’

    A media storm about lesbian mothers caused a heated national debate in 1970s Britain.

  4. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

    Throughout the 80s women protested against nuclear weapons which were held at the UK base

  5. Polish refugees in Africa

    How Polish women and children found refuge in African countries during WW2

  6. The mysterious death of Samora Machel

    Many suspected foul play when Mozambique's socialist leader was killed in a plane crash

  7. The first transgender minister in the Church of England

    Sarah Jones is the first person who had made a gender change to be ordained by the C of E

  8. The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist

    American anti-abortion extremists began killing doctors in the 1990s.

  9. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

    In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan.

  10. The story of 'Baby Jessica'

    When a toddler fell down a well in Texas she became the centre of a media storm

  11. Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

    The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.

  12. Winning the Arabic Booker prize

    Saudi author Raja Alem was the first woman to win the prestigious international award

  13. Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer

    The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football

  14. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

    The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

  15. A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain

    How Ibrahim Ismaa'il escaped poverty in Somalia to live in the British countryside.

  16. Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

    The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain.

  17. London's first black policeman

    In 1967 Norwell Roberts became the first Black officer in the Metropolitan police

  18. The Tanker War

    Surviving a deadly attack on a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war

  19. Petra Kelly and the German Greens

    The radical German Greens reshaped the country’s political landscape in the early 1980s

  20. 'Mad cow disease' and CJD

    In 1996 the UK government said there was a link between BSE in cattle and CJD in humans

  21. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

  22. The rise of the Taliban

    How the Afghan fighters first came to power in the 1990s

  23. Kenya: Westgate Mall attack

    Gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre, the siege lasted four days in September 2013

  24. James Bond on screen

    As the latest James Bond film hits cinema screens we look at the appeal of the franchise

  25. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

    How one of Vladimir Putin's critics was killed in London with a radioactive substance

  26. Mexico's miracle water

    People flocked from all over the Americas to central Mexico in search of healing water

  27. Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

    The journalist who revealed the affair between the Greek shipping magnate and JFK's widow

  28. The Peter Principle

    Why promotion leads to incompetence

  29. Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune

    Copenhagen’s Christiania commune was created as a radical social experiment.

  30. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

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