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Witness History Episodes

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    Medicine In World War One

    Veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1

  2. The Discovery of Botox

    How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles

  3. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

    A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two

  4. Rabindranath Tagore

    The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.

  5. The Division of Cyprus

    In August 1974, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus for a second time cutting the island in two

  6. The Buenos Aires Herald

    The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's dictatorship.

  7. Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

    In the 1990s Nike got a bad name after being linked to sweatshops in Asia.

  8. Germany's Nudists

    How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.

  9. Reagan's Bombing Joke

    "We begin bombing in five minutes" said the US President in 1984. But he was only joking

  10. Florence Nightingale

    The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.

  11. The Calcutta Killings of 1946

    Exactly a year before Indian independence there were deadly riots in the city of Calcutta

  12. The Murder of Naji al-Ali

    The acclaimed Palestinian cartoonist was gunned down in London in 1987

  13. Discovering The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    Charles Moore recalls how he came across the world's largest floating rubbish dump.

  14. The Camp David Summit

    In 2000 the US led a major effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  15. China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

    In July 1999, the Chinese government banned the spiritual movement Falun Gong

  16. The Birth of the Water Baby

    In 1977 a state hospital near Paris began quietly changing the way women gave birth.

  17. Surviving the "Auschwitz of the Balkans"

    Croatian fascists killed Serbs, Jews and Roma people in Jasenovac camp during WW2.

  18. The Death of Evita

    Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952.

  19. Pioneer North Sea Divers

    In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom

  20. Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China

    The Chinese civil war remembered by the Nationalist leader's former chief aide.

  21. When homosexuality was a crime

    Hear one man's story of living in fear before 1967 when Britain legalised homosexuality

  22. Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme

    In the 1960s, many Soviet families moved to a flat of their own for the first time.

  23. The Welsh Language Act

    In July 1967 there was a breakthrough for the Welsh language.

  24. US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam

    How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s

  25. The Bonus Army

    In summer 1932, thousands of American First World War veterans marched on Washington

  26. The Killing of Gianni Versace

    In July 1997 the Italian fashion designer was shot on the steps of his Florida mansion.

  27. Nintendo's Family Computer

    The home gaming console was a breakthrough in the world of computer games.

  28. The Mont Blanc Tunnel

    In July 1965 an 11-km tunnel dug deep beneath the Alps was opened to traffic

  29. The Oka Crisis

    Indigenous Canadians spent the summer of 1990 in a stand off with police.

  30. Castlemorton Common: Britain's Biggest Illegal Rave

    In the summer of 1992 thousands of ravers and New Age travellers gathered for a festival.

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