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Witness History Episodes

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    The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

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

  2. Britain's Little Blue Disability Car

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

  3. Japanese Murders in Brazil

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

  4. The Shah in Exile

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

  5. Jewish in Imperial Russia

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

  6. How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear

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

  7. Armistice Day 1918

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

  8. WW1: Revolution in Germany

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

  9. Women Nurses during World War One

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

  10. African Troops during World War One

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

  11. The Battle of Passchendaele

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

  12. A Kristallnacht story

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

  13. Why I Slapped the German Chancellor

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

  14. Princess Margaret And The War Hero

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

  15. Life With America's Black Panthers

    Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.

  16. The KGB's Whistleblower

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

  17. The Day Nigeria Struck Oil

    An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history

  18. When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

    Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003

  19. Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

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

  20. The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet

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

  21. Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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

  22. When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola

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

  23. The Pergau Dam Affair

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

  24. Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon

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

  25. The 1973 Oil Crisis

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

  26. Fighting Mount Etna

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

  27. Archbishop Oscar Romero

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

  28. Austria at War

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

  29. The Nazi Black Book

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

  30. Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden

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

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