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Witness History Episodes

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    China's breakthrough malaria cure

    Chinese scientists used ancient traditional medicine to find a cure for malaria.

  2. Lenin and the deadly mushrooms

    A spoof TV show persuaded some Russians that Lenin took too many hallucinogenic mushrooms

  3. The fall of Singapore

    Life under Japanese occupation in Singapore during World War Two.

  4. Britain's first female black headteacher

    Yvonne Conolly was appointed head of Ringcross Primary school in North London in 1969

  5. The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles

    Melina Mercouri asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles removed by Lord Elgin.

  6. Speaking out against my abuser: Daniel Ortega

    How Nicaragua's president was accused of sexual abuse by his step-daughter

  7. The creation of the Barbie doll

    Hear from the woman who created the most famous doll in the world.

  8. Britain's first Muslim woman in government

    Sayeeda Warsi was appointed to the coalition government's Cabinet in May 2010

  9. Happy Beer Day!

    On March 1st 1989 Icelanders were allowed to buy beer for the first time in decades

  10. Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis

    Armed left-wing extremists fought off Japanese police in the mountains in February 1972

  11. Sucked out of a plane

    Nine people died when a cargo door opened mid-flight over the Pacific in February 1989

  12. Swine flu shuts down Mexico City

    A highly infectious virus appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread round the world

  13. Venezuela's oil bonanza

    The boom and bust years of "Saudi" Venezuela in the 1970s

  14. How science ended the search for Josef Mengele

    A panel of scientists went to Brazil to identify the remains of the infamous Nazi in 1985

  15. The men who tried to warn us about smoking

    When doctors said cigarette smokers were dying prematurely the UK government did little.

  16. The curse of Agent Orange

    One woman's battle against the toxic legacy of the Vietnam War

  17. The Columbia space shuttle disaster

    The US space shuttle disintegrated on its way back to Earth on February 1, 2003.

  18. The true story of Roma

    The student massacre in México portrayed in Alfonso Cuarón's award-winning movie.

  19. Maastricht: The birth of the European Union

    In 1992 European ministers signed a treaty towards greater economic and political unity.

  20. Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic

    How a homeless Russian drunk wrote a secret classic

  21. British Cameroons' historic referendum

    The 1961 vote lies at the heart of the violent conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone region

  22. Women Airline Pilots

    Two of the first female airline pilots in the US remember their struggle

  23. Iceland Jails Its Bankers

    The man who jailed 40 top bankers in Iceland after the 2008 global credit crunch

  24. The Bombardment of Baghdad

    The people of Baghdad faced death when the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq

  25. Disney Goes to Europe

    The first Disney theme park in Europe took years of negotiations to get off the ground.

  26. The Soweto Uprising

    A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked an uprising in South Africa.

  27. The Capture of Che Guevara

    How the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.

  28. The Death of Hitler

    A first-hand account of Hitler from one of his secretaries who was there at the very end

  29. Women and the Iranian Revolution

    Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned

  30. Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

    The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980

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