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Witness History Episodes

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    The birth of the Sony Walkman

    The portable tape player that brought music-on-the-move to millions was launched in 1979

  2. Flying through a volcano

    How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived

  3. Inventing James Bond

    How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

  4. Who has the right to vote in America?

    The decision that quashed a key part of an electoral law designed to protect black voters

  5. St Kilda

    The remote Scottish islands whose last inhabitants were evacuated in August 1930

  6. Occupy Wall Street

    How former policeman Ray Lewis joined the anti-inequality demonstrations in New York

  7. America's first woman combat pilot

    How Jeannie Leavitt became the first woman to fly a US Air Force fighter plane in 1993.

  8. Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

    The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.

  9. The siege at Ruby Ridge

    An 11-day standoff between a fugitive and the US government ended with three people dead.

  10. The Guatemalan syphilis scandal

    How American doctors carried out secretive STD experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s

  11. The first modern asthma inhaler

    Millions of people’s lives have been saved and improved by the metered dose inhaler.

  12. The lost King of England

    How archaeologists discovered the lost grave of King Richard III under a car park

  13. Surviving Saddam

    The memories of a young Iraqi woman who grew up in the dictator's inner social circle

  14. The invention of the modern ventilator

    How a polio epidemic in Denmark in 1952 led to the invention of the modern ventilator

  15. Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

    How Turkish campaigners forced a radical change in the law on crimes against women

  16. Beirut's Hotel War

    How the Lebanese Civil War came to Beirut's luxury hotel district in 1975.

  17. Bremen’s Elephant Statue

    How the German city addressed its colonial past by rededicating a famous monument

  18. Radar and World War Two

    How British women operated secret radar technology during World War Two

  19. The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution

    How Beate Sirota Gordon got wording on gender equality into Japan's post-war constitution

  20. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

    Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

  21. The battle of Midway

    How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific

  22. The internment of Japanese Americans

    During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps

  23. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.

  24. The death of Heinrich Himmler

    The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe

  25. Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

    The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.

  26. Adrift for 76 days

    A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

  27. Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

    How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.

  28. The writer who put Latinos centre stage

    Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida

  29. The fastest vaccine ever developed

    How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine

  30. The first safe house for Afghan women

    Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan

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