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Witness History Episodes

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    Hacking The First Computer Password

    Scientists at MIT in the 1960s had to share computer time - but some people wanted more.

  2. Theatre in the Sahara

    Theatre director Peter Brook led a troupe of actors across the Sahara desert in 1972

  3. The US Apologises for Wartime Internment

    Japanese Americans win an apology and compensation for World War II internment.

  4. China and Japan at War

    Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.

  5. Englandspiel: The Deadly WW2 Spy Game

    How Britain sent dozens of Dutch agents to their deaths in Nazi-occupied Netherlands

  6. Apollo 8

    How the first mission to orbit the Moon captured the world's imagination in December 1968

  7. When China Joined the WTO

    China had to open up its strict communist system to join the World Trade Organisation

  8. Cicely Saunders And The Modern Hospice Movement

    The British woman who revolutionised the treatment of dying patients around the world.

  9. Angela Merkel's Rise to Power

    Angela Merkel rose to power in German politics after the fall of her mentor, Helmut Kohl.

  10. Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

    Ramiro Osorio Cristales was five when his family was massacred by the Guatemalan army.

  11. The Armenian Earthquake

    A catastrophic earthquake hit northern Armenia on December 7th 1988, hear from a survivor

  12. The Coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa

    On 4 December 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa was crowned Emperor of the Central African Republic

  13. Berlin's Rubble Women

    At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.

  14. Norway's EU referendum

    In November 1994, Norwegians voted in a referendum not to join the European Union

  15. The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs

    The fossil find in 1923 in Mongolia helped to prove that dinosaurs hatched their young.

  16. The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity

    In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.

  17. The Antarctic Whale Hunters

    Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.

  18. The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands

    When Iraq's marshes became a hiding place for rebels, Saddam Hussein destroyed them.

  19. The USSR Opens Up to the West

    Four years after Stalin's death, Moscow threw a festival for 30,000 foreign students.

  20. The Last Days of Yasser Arafat

    The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004

  21. The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK

    What did Lee Harvey Oswald do for two years in the Soviet city of Minsk?

  22. The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers

    How hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were hired to work legally in US farms.

  23. The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

    Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.

  24. Britain's Little Blue Disability Car

    For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars

  25. Japanese Murders in Brazil

    Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.

  26. The Shah in Exile

    Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah

  27. Jewish in Imperial Russia

    A young woman's rare account of Jewish life in imperial Russia.

  28. How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear

    Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva remembers the day his father was taken by the military.

  29. Armistice Day 1918

    On November 11th 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns of World War One finally fell silent

  30. WW1: Revolution in Germany

    Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918

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