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Witness History Episodes

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    The Windmill Theatre

    A British national institution closed in 1964.

  2. The British Love Affair with Curry

    Indian restaurants first became popular in the UK in the 1950s.

  3. The Exploding Whale

    The story behind one of the most famous viral videos ever.

  4. World War One: Ordinary Lives

    Recordings of two people who felt the cost of war both on the battlefield and at home

  5. Sabah: The Songbird of Lebanon

    The singing star and actress was one of the most popular celebrities in the Middle East.

  6. Laika the Space Dog

    The Russian street dog was the first living creature to orbit the Earth.

  7. The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control

    Eyewitness accounts of the Russian Revolution of 7 November 1917

  8. Osama Bin Laden's Last Interview

    Osama bin Laden spoke to journalist Hamid Mir as US-led forces closed in after 9/11.

  9. The Naked Ape

    The book that revolutionised the way we look at human behaviour.

  10. The Case That Saved Sex on the Internet

    In 1997 the US Supreme Court ruled against censoring sex on the internet.

  11. Oscar Niemeyer's Forgotten Masterpiece

    In the Lebanese city of Tripoli there is an exceptional architectural site.

  12. Martin Luther's 95 Theses

    How German monk Martin Luther started a religious revolution

  13. The Murder of Brazil's Leading Journalist

    Journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed in detention by the secret police in October 1975.

  14. A Literary Love Affair

    How Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met and fell in love in Paris in October 1929

  15. The Death of Dele Giwa

    An eyewitness to the assassination of the famous Nigerian journalist Dele Giwa in 1986

  16. The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives

    How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.

  17. Private Eye

    A new satirical magazine called Private Eye was published in London in October 1961.

  18. Romania's Abortion Ban

    Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu made abortion illegal in October 1966.

  19. The 43 Group: Battling British Fascism

    How British Jewish ex-servicemen fought fascists on the streets of Britain after WW2

  20. The Mysterious Death of Samora Machel

    The socialist leader of Mozambique was killed in a plane crash and many were suspicious.

  21. Moscow Theatre Siege

    Svetlana Gubareva recalls her ordeal when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theatre in 2002.

  22. The Death of JG Farrell

    The writer drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979.

  23. Cuban Missile Crisis: the Governments

    In October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war

  24. Madonna's First Single

    Everybody was released in 1982 - it was the first step on Madonna's journey to stardom

  25. Testifying Against OJ Simpson

    Ron Shipp was a close friend of OJ Simpson's but decided to testify against him in court.

  26. Saving Italy's Art During WW2

    Italy's great works of art were threatened by bombing and looting during World War Two.

  27. Lluis Companys - Martyr of Catalan Nationalism

    The Catalan leader who was executed by a Spanish fascist firing squad in October 1940.

  28. The Death of Che Guevara

    Felix Rodriguez recalls his part in the killing of the Marxist revolutionary in Oct 1967.

  29. Matthew Shepard: A killing that changed American law

    The murder of a gay student shocked Americans and helped reform US hate crime law

  30. The first black American at Ole Miss

    In 1962 the first black American was enrolled at Mississippi University amid riots

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