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Witness History Episodes

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

    Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

  2. Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile

    In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned

  3. Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

    How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.

  4. The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World

    Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing

  5. The Beatles' Last Gig

    In 1969, the Beatles played together in public for the last time, on a London rooftop.

  6. Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

    Pope John XXIII wanted to modernise the Catholic Church, reforms took place in the 1960s.

  7. The Carry On Films

    The British comic film franchise which found fans around the world

  8. India's First Call Centre

    In the late 1990s a businessman started a new industry in India

  9. The Case of Dr Crippen

    How one of the most notorious murderers in Edwardian London was captured

  10. The Thames Whale

    In January 2006, millions of Londoners were entranced by the appearance of a whale.

  11. Strikers In Saris

    South Asian women led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory.

  12. Mexico's Miracle Water

    Thousands of people flocked to the village of Tlacote hoping to be cured by magical water

  13. Judy Garland's Final Shows

    The world famous singer's final performances were in London in January 1969

  14. 'Fat is a Feminist Issue'

    Susie Orbach's book led people to rethink body-image from a feminist perspective

  15. Diary of Life in a Favela

    The poor black single mother who stunned Brazil with a book about her life in 1960.

  16. When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

    Hundreds of Soviet doctors were imprisoned or shot in the last year of Stalin's rule.

  17. Fidel Castro Takes Havana

    The end of the US-backed dictator and the start of communist rule in Cuba in January 1959

  18. The Doomsday Seed Vault

    In 2008, the first global seed vault was opened to safeguard the world's crops

  19. Vikings in North America

    The Canadian discovery that proved Vikings had crossed the Atlantic 1000 years ago

  20. Ceausescu's 'House of the People'

    The vast building that symbolised the excesses of Romania's brutal former dictator

  21. Barbara Cartland - Queen of Romance

    The romantic fiction writer is thought to have sold hundreds of millions of books

  22. Brazil's Marijuana Summer

    In 1987 thousands of tin cans full of marijuana washed up on the beaches in Rio.

  23. Rebels Rout The Army In El Salvador

    The storming of the El Paraiso base by Marxist rebels in December 1983.

  24. When Animals Go To War

    In December 1943, a British charity created gallantry medals for animals serving in war.

  25. Trautonium: A Revolution in Electronic Music

    Meet the trautonium, the early electronic instrument promoted by the Nazis.

  26. The Soviet Afghan War Begins

    The world held its breath in December 1979 as Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan

  27. UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

    At Christmas 1980 strange objects and lights were seen over a military base in England.

  28. Scotland's Stone of Destiny

    On Christmas Eve 1950 four students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey

  29. Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

    How a passenger helped subdue shoe-bomber Richard Reid on an American Airlines flight.

  30. The Woman Who Wrote Mary Poppins

    Writer PL Travers created a children's classic when she invented a magical nanny.

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