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Witness History Episodes

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    Couch to 5K

    The birth of the running programme that got millions off their sofas and out jogging

  2. Lyuba the Baby Mammoth

    How a herdsman found the perfectly preserved body of a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth.

  3. Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction

    The American writer and scientist considered one of the greats of Science Fiction.

  4. Free Health Care For All

    In 1948 Britain launched the National Health Service, NHS

  5. The Thalidomide Trial

    Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalidomide went on trial in May 1968

  6. The First Bicycle Sharing Scheme

    In the mid 1960s a Dutch engineer came up with a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution.

  7. Canadian Indigenous Protest

    Plans to expand a golf course led to a stand-off between Mohawks and Canadian police.

  8. The BBC at Caversham

    For 75 years the BBC ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home.

  9. Wine Shock: The Judgement of Paris

    How California stunned the French wine world in the 1970s.

  10. Shoah the Film

    Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's epic nine-hour film on the Holocaust was released in spring 1985

  11. The Rajneesh Poisoning Scandal

    How the followers of an Indian guru tried to poison their opponents in Oregon, USA.

  12. Lesbian Protest on BBC News

    On 23 May 1988 a group of lesbian activists invaded a BBC TV news studio as it was on air

  13. Deaf University Protest

    How deaf students forced their American university to appoint a deaf president.

  14. Pakistan's Theatre Revolution

    The launch of Ajoka, the group which pioneered theatre for social change in Pakistan.

  15. China's Barefoot Doctors

    In 1968 Chairman Mao sent thousands of young people into rural China to work as doctors.

  16. President Suharto Resigns

    On May 21st 1998 the president of Indonesia resigned after 31 years in power.

  17. Defusing Nuclear Bombs: The Goldsboro 'Broken Arrow'

    How Lt. Jack ReVelle disarmed two thermonuclear bombs which crashed in North Carolina.

  18. Look Back in Anger

    The play Look Back in Anger changed British theatre when it was staged in 1956

  19. May 1968 Paris Riots

    A riot policeman's view of the violence which swept through France in 1968.

  20. The First Montessori Nursery

    In 1907 Italian doctor, Maria Montessori, radically changed the way young children learn.

  21. The Dambusters Raid

    The famous British raid on German dams during World War Two.

  22. The Walker Spy Ring

    In 1985 members of the US spy ring were arrested for selling Navy secrets to the USSR.

  23. The First Foetal Surgery

    On the 10th May 1981 a baby was born after a successful operation while in the womb.

  24. The Last King of Bulgaria

    Bulgaria's former King Simeon II wins the country’s parliamentary election in 2001.

  25. Africa United

    How 32 newly-independent nations came together to plan the future of their continent.

  26. The First Diagnosis of Autism

    The condition was first described in 1943 by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the USA

  27. When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power

    The British politician was the first woman elected to lead a Western European country.

  28. WW2: Prisoner on the High Seas

    A surprise attack, a ship lost, a crew captured - memories of a merchant navy veteran

  29. Takeshi's Castle

    A new sort of game show started on Japanese TV in May 1986

  30. The Children's Crusade

    Thousands of black children protested on the streets of Birmingham Alabama in May 1963.

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