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Witness History Episodes

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    Women Nurses during World War One

    Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.

  2. African Troops during World War One

    Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1

  3. The Battle of Passchendaele

    It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1

  4. A Kristallnacht story

    Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938

  5. Why I Slapped the German Chancellor

    In November 1968 a young activist hit Germany's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past

  6. Princess Margaret And The War Hero

    How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.

  7. Life With America's Black Panthers

    Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.

  8. The KGB's Whistleblower

    KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992

  9. The Day Nigeria Struck Oil

    An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history

  10. When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

    Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003

  11. Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

    The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's

  12. The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet

    The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998

  13. Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  14. When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola

    When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious

  15. The Pergau Dam Affair

    In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.

  16. Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon

    How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.

  17. The 1973 Oil Crisis

    In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.

  18. Fighting Mount Etna

    How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.

  19. Archbishop Oscar Romero

    Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint

  20. Austria at War

    The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation

  21. The Nazi Black Book

    During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis

  22. Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden

    In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden

  23. Reform of the House of Lords

    How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament

  24. Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing

    How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".

  25. The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

    Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.

  26. The Invention of Artificial Skin

    How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.

  27. The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

    A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.

  28. Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine

    The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943

  29. The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark

    The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.

  30. Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War

    The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.

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