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Witness History Episodes

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    When Eritrea silenced its critics

    How a journalist tried to escape Eritrea's historic crackdown on critics and the press

  2. The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

    On November 4th 1956 Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest crushing the anti-Soviet uprising

  3. The enduring legend of Fu Manchu

    The evil criminal mastermind Fu Manchu was a recurring film character for decades

  4. Judgement at Nuremberg

    It is 75 years since verdicts were delivered on leading German Nazis at Nuremberg

  5. The miracle of walking

    The doctor who revolutionised the treatment of 'club foot' - rejecting invasive surgery

  6. Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers

    In the past 100 years, 90% of the glacial ice at the top of Kilimanjaro has disappeared

  7. The child climate activist of the 1990s

    Severn Cullis-Suzuki was 12 when she spoke to world leaders at the UN Earth Summit in Rio

  8. How the world woke up to climate change

    A scientist delivered a direct message to US politicians about climate change in 1988

  9. The world's first environment conference

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

  10. Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'

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

  11. Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’

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

  12. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

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

  13. Polish refugees in Africa

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

  14. The mysterious death of Samora Machel

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

  15. 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

  16. The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist

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

  17. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

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

  18. The story of 'Baby Jessica'

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

  19. Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

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

  20. Winning the Arabic Booker prize

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

  21. Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer

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

  22. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

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

  23. A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain

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

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

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

  25. London's first black policeman

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

  26. The Tanker War

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

  27. Petra Kelly and the German Greens

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

  28. 'Mad cow disease' and CJD

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

  29. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

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

  30. The rise of the Taliban

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

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