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Witness History Episodes

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    A New Approach to Shakespeare

    The Royal Shakespeare Company opened in Britain in 1961 and changed theatre forever.

  2. Pablo Picasso

    The great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso died in April 1973; hear from someone who knew him

  3. Scottish Prison Experiment

    A special unit in a Glasgow jail began offering art therapy to violent prisoners in 1973.

  4. The Oslo Peace Talks

    How secret negotiations in Norway led to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

  5. Swimming The Bering Strait

    How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union.

  6. World War One: The Red Baron

    Veterans remember the famous German air ace who was killed in April 1918

  7. Earth Day

    In 1970, 20 million Americans came out to demonstrate for a sustainable environment.

  8. The Last Keeper of the Light

    The island of Skellig Michael has lighthouses, and a striking role in Star Wars films.

  9. The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

    In April 1945 British troops discovered the horrors of the Holocaust in a camp in Germany

  10. Rebuilding the Site of the Twin Towers

    How a team of architects were given the responsibility to repair New York's skyline.

  11. World War One: Germany's Spring Offensive 1918

    Germany launched a huge offensive on the Western Front in a last gamble to win the war.

  12. The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

    The German student leader was shot in April 1968, leading to protests in West Berlin.

  13. The Soviet Spy Scandal

    In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.

  14. The Zimbabwe Massacres

    Robert Mugabe sent troops to put down opposition supporters in western Zimbabwe in 1983.

  15. The First Frozen Embryo Baby

    Zoe Leyland was born in Australia on April 11th 1984 after her mother's IVF treatment.

  16. Woodfall Films

    The film company which changed British cinema.

  17. The Emergency Rescue Committee

    The Emergency Rescue Committee helped save intellectuals and artists from the Nazis

  18. 2001 A Space Odyssey

    Actor Keir Dullea recalls starring in Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking sci-fi movie

  19. Russia's Bitter Taste of Capitalism

    Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the rapid market reforms in early 1992.

  20. The UNAbomber

    How the UNAbomber Ted Kaczynski was caught after his brother turned him in

  21. The Invention of Semtex

    The Czech plastic explosive that was once undetectable to security services

  22. The Good Friday Agreement

    The deal which brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence.

  23. Mapping the Ocean's Secrets

    Marie Tharp's discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge proved the theory of plate tectonics

  24. The 'Oasis of Peace'

    The story of Wahat al-Salam, Neve Shalom where Jews and Arabs live side by side in peace.

  25. Sarajevo: Singing for Peace

    How a multi-faith choir brought together survivors of the Bosnian civil war.

  26. First Women on the London Stock Exchange

    The women who broke tradition shocking London's top-hatted stockbrokers.

  27. Who Killed Luis Colosio?

    The murder of a presidential candidate that shocked Mexico.

  28. Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud

    In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.

  29. A Brief History of Time

    Physicist Stephen Hawking's best-seller, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988

  30. Elvis in the US Army

    How the 'King' of Rock'n'Roll became a GI in 1958 and served during the Cold War

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