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Witness History Episodes

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    The Skull Valley Sheep Kill

    Did a nerve agent kill 6,000 sheep close to a US military testing site in 1968?

  2. Latvia's Controversial Waffen-SS Fighters

    In 1998 Latvian Waffen-SS veterans marched to remember a battle against the Soviets.

  3. Tancredo Neves - Doomed Hero of Brazilian Democracy

    How the politician who led Brazil to democracy died before taking office as president.

  4. The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America

    How the BBC began Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts to fight the Nazis in the Americas

  5. Surviving The My Lai Massacre

    One of the worse US military atrocities took place during the Vietnam war.

  6. The Moscow Show Trials

    An eyewitness account of Stalin's purge of top Soviet leaders during the Great Terror.

  7. Changing the Alphabet in Azerbaijan

    After independence Azerbaijan changed from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin letters.

  8. Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer

    The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened in London in 1921 by Dr Marie Stopes

  9. The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt

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

  10. Deaf Rights Protest

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

  11. Wonder Woman

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

  12. World War One: Russia at War

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

  13. China's Barefoot Doctors

    How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.

  14. M*A*S*H

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

  15. The Killing of Olof Palme

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

  16. The Angel of the North

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

  17. The Last Smallpox Outbreak

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

  18. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

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

  19. The Boy in the Bubble

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

  20. Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace

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

  21. Ghana Must Go

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

  22. Vietnam War: The Battle for Hue

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

  23. The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists

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

  24. Leonardo's Lost Notebooks

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

  25. Women's Rights In Iran

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

  26. Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'

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

  27. Sartre and de Beauvoir

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

  28. The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858

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

  29. Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two

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

  30. Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb

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

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