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Witness History Episodes

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    Britain's little blue disability car

    For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport

  2. Helen Keller

    The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world

  3. When the Egyptian president went to Israel

    Why Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in November 1977

  4. Our Bodies, Ourselves

    The story of a radical book about women’s health and sexuality.

  5. America's WW2 refugee camp

    How nearly a thousand Jewish refugees were housed in an old fort near New York during WW2

  6. The world's first woman premier

    In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister

  7. Captured by Somali pirates

    Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008

  8. The 'good enough' mother

    Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.

  9. When Pluto lost its planet status

    An international committee of astronomers agreed Pluto wasn't really a planet in 2006

  10. World War One in Africa

    Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa

  11. Makaton - the signing system that changes lives

    The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s

  12. The Guerrilla Girls

    The women who launched an anonymous poster campaign against sexism and racism in art.

  13. The church that rose from the rubble

    Reconstructing Dresden's historic baroque church.

  14. The 1945 Pan-African Congress

    How a meeting in Manchester shaped the post-war struggle against colonialism

  15. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    The Israeli PM was shot by an extremist opposed to the peace process on November 4th 1995

  16. 'I just wanted to be white'

    Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany

  17. The sex musical that wowed New York and London

    In 1969 a theatrical revue called Oh Calcutta opened. It featured male and female nudity.

  18. With the president on 9/11

    How former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card broke news of 9/11 to President Bush

  19. Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

    How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.

  20. The Watergate scandal

    The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.

  21. Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president

    The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.

  22. When JFK won the US presidency

    The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

  23. Nasa's pioneering black women

    The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme

  24. The missing victims of apartheid

    How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule

  25. The Cutter Incident

    How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.

  26. Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'

    The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment

  27. Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

    In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.

  28. Saddam Hussein's big movie project

    Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties

  29. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote

  30. The last of the Kazakh herders

    Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s

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