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Witness History Episodes

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    Britain's GI babies

    The story of children born to British mothers and black GIs during WW2

  2. The Chippendales

    The male stripper troupe was founded in Los Angeles in 1979

  3. Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign

    In December 1972 the US military launched its heaviest bombardment of Hanoi.

  4. Cirque du Soleil

    The ground-breaking circus was formed by a group of street performers in Quebec in 1984.

  5. The secret history of Monopoly

    The true story of one of the world's most popular board games, Monopoly.

  6. The invasion of Afghanistan

    On 24 December 1979 Soviet troops started pouring into Afghanistan

  7. Fighting cancer

    Pioneering work in the 60s into combination chemotherapy to try to find a cure for cancer

  8. The creation of Abuja

    Why Nigeria built a brand new capital city from scratch.

  9. Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder

    Why the mysterious loss of honey bees in the US triggered a global panic.

  10. The Romanian revolution

    In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu

  11. Women and the Sabarimala temple

    How Indian women fought for the right to be allowed into a Hindu holy site

  12. Black GIs during World War Two

    How soldiers who had been relegated to support roles were asked to volunteer for combat

  13. The attack on India's parliament

    In December 2001 armed men attacked India's parliamentary compound in broad daylight

  14. El Salvador's stolen children

    During El Salvador's civil war, soldiers abducted children in rebel areas

  15. The killing of Amadou Diallo

    When New York police shot a young immigrant 41 times, thousands took to the streets

  16. The 'Awakenings' medical experiment

    In the 1960s a new drug briefly woke up patients who'd been catatonic for decades.

  17. The IRA siege at Balcombe Street

    In December 1975, the IRA took a middle-aged couple hostage in Central London.

  18. The battle of the Louvre pyramid

    How Paris was eventually won round to the Louvre museum's great glass pyramid

  19. The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro

    In 1990 Reinaldo Arenas died of Aids in New York, leaving behind a powerful autobiography

  20. Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison

    A prison camp in the Uzbek desert became notorious for torture and human rights abuses.

  21. The British sculptor who won over the world

    Henry Moore revolutionised sculpture by creating immense works and setting them outside.

  22. Shackleton

    How a doomed Antarctic expedition in 1914 became a legendary story of survival

  23. The killing of Pablo Escobar

    The Colombian drug trafficker was shot dead by police on December 2nd 1993

  24. The first confirmed case of HIV in America

    Robert R was a teenager who died of an undiagnosed illness in Missouri in 1969

  25. Handing back Uluru

    In 1985 Australia's famous natural landmark Uluru was returned to aboriginal ownership

  26. From cakes to computers

    How the Lyons catering company pioneered LEO, the first electronic office system

  27. India's economic revolution

    In the 1990s India began to open up its state-controlled economy

  28. The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking

    American scientist Dennis Klatt pioneered synthesised speech using his own voice.

  29. Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter

    How Wilfred Thesiger travelled in one of the world's harshest environments in the 1940s.

  30. The man who got Delhi on track

    India's capital city built a Metro to tackle its traffic and air pollution problems

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