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Witness History Episodes

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    The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt

    The life and thought of the leading 20th-century political thinker, Hannah Arendt

  2. Deaf Rights Protest

    Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.

  3. Wonder Woman

    The first major female superhero was created by psychologist William Marston in 1941

  4. World War One: Russia at War

    How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution

  5. China's Barefoot Doctors

    How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.

  6. M*A*S*H

    The last episode of the iconic TV series broadcasts to record audiences across the US.

  7. The Killing of Olof Palme

    The Swedish Prime Minister was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28th 1986.

  8. The Angel of the North

    The huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.

  9. The Last Smallpox Outbreak

    In India in 1974 thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic

  10. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century was published in February 1996.

  11. The Boy in the Bubble

    David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble

  12. Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace

    How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute

  13. Ghana Must Go

    Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983

  14. Vietnam War: The Battle for Hue

    Communist forces overran the key city in 1968 triggering one of the war's biggest battles

  15. The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists

    A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.

  16. Leonardo's Lost Notebooks

    In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain

  17. Women's Rights In Iran

    Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.

  18. Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'

    The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry

  19. Sartre and de Beauvoir

    The love affair between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lasted for 50 years.

  20. The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858

    In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games

  21. Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two

    Russian mountaineers disguised monuments in the city to protect them from enemy fire.

  22. Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb

    Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC

  23. The Killing of Vincent Chin

    The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.

  24. The Munich Air Disaster

    The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.

  25. The Hanafi Hostage Siege

    How American Muslim gunmen took more than 100 people hostage in the US capital in 1977.

  26. Women in Britain get the right to vote

    On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time

  27. The Birth of the Water Baby

    French obstetrician Dr Michel Odent encouraged women to use water to ease childbirth.

  28. Bringing Nazi Leader Klaus Barbie To Justice

    The extradition to France of the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon'

  29. China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

    The Chinese government banned the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, in 1999.

  30. Banning The Belt

    How two Scottish mothers forced the UK government to end corporal punishment in schools

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