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Witness History Episodes

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    The first home pregnancy test

    A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s

  2. The rise of Viktor Orban

    Viktor Orban, now the populist Hungarian Prime Minister led a democratic movement in 1988

  3. Autism and the MMR vaccine

    How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine with autism.

  4. The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess

    How an accidental discovery in Mexico led to the uncovering of the Aztecs´ Great Temple.

  5. The first democratic elections in the USSR

    Soviet citizens voted in democratic elections for the first time in March 1989.

  6. The millionaire Nazi war criminal

    How the Dutch art collector Pieter Menten was exposed as a war criminal in the 1970s

  7. How Little America was built in Afghanistan

    In the 1950s, US engineers were sent to Afghanistan to build a dam.

  8. Slaughterhouse-Five

    In March 1969, American author Kurt Vonnegut published his cult anti-war novel.

  9. China's breakthrough malaria cure

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

  10. Lenin and the deadly mushrooms

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

  11. The fall of Singapore

    Life under Japanese occupation in Singapore during World War Two.

  12. Britain's first female black headteacher

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

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

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

  14. Speaking out against my abuser: Daniel Ortega

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

  15. The creation of the Barbie doll

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

  16. Britain's first Muslim woman in government

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

  17. Happy Beer Day!

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

  18. Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis

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

  19. Sucked out of a plane

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

  20. Swine flu shuts down Mexico City

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

  21. Venezuela's oil bonanza

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

  22. 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

  23. The men who tried to warn us about smoking

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

  24. The curse of Agent Orange

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

  25. The Columbia space shuttle disaster

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

  26. The true story of Roma

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

  27. Maastricht: The birth of the European Union

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

  28. Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic

    How a homeless Russian drunk wrote a secret classic

  29. British Cameroons' historic referendum

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

  30. Women Airline Pilots

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

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