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Witness History Episodes

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    Reform of the House of Lords

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

  2. Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing

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

  3. The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

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

  4. The Invention of Artificial Skin

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

  5. The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

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

  6. Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine

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

  7. The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark

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

  8. Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War

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

  9. The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine

    The scientific breakthrough that saved the lives of thousands of women

  10. Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer

    Sometimes called the 'Mother of Modern Dance'

  11. The South African Army In Lesotho

    South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998

  12. Brazil's Nuclear Accident

    Hundreds of people were contaminated when a disused radiotherapy machine was scrapped.

  13. The Battle of Algiers

    The film that tells the true story of the Algerians' fight for their capital Algiers

  14. The Arnhem Parachute Drop

    In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland

  15. The Cuban Five

    The case of five Cuban spies arrested in Miami in September 1998

  16. The Fifteen Guinea Special

    The train signaled the end of the steam age on Britain's main-line rail network in 1968

  17. The Truth About Crop Circles

    Thought to be left by UFOs the phenomena was resolved when two men came forward in 1991.

  18. How I Survived a Fire on a Plane

    One young man was the only passenger to survive a fire on a plane - find out how.

  19. The Killing of Steve Biko

    The brutal death in custody of the anti-Apartheid activist in September 1977.

  20. Appeasement

    In September 1938 Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.

  21. The Ship that Dumped America's Waste

    How campaigners fought to stop the 'Khian Sea' from off-loading tons of US waste abroad

  22. WWI: The Hundred Days Offensive

    First-hand accounts of the Allied offensive that finally brought the bloody war to an end

  23. From Leningrad to St Petersburg

    In a hugely symbolic act Leningrad returned to its historic name of St Petersburg in 1991

  24. Living Under Gaddafi

    A military coup in Libya in September 1969 brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.

  25. The Battle for Brick Lane

    In 1978 the racist murder of a young Bengali galvanised an immigrant community in London.

  26. The First MRI Scan

    Dr Raymond Damadian attempted the first magnetic resonance scan of a human body.

  27. Surviving the "Death Railway"

    A prisoner of war describes the deadly conditions building the bridge over the River Kwai

  28. The Mine Disaster That Devastated Post-War Italy

    How an accident at Marcinelle in Belgium killed more than 100 Italian migrant workers.

  29. The Lake Nyos Disaster

    The mysterious death of villagers and livestock in north-western Cameroon

  30. Hitler's League Of German Girls

    An elderly German recalls her years as a leader in the Hitler Youth for girls.

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