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Witness History Episodes

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    The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

    Hear from two of the key players who brought to an end over 70 years of communism

  2. Apollo 8

    How the first mission around the Moon captured the world's imagination at Christmas 1968

  3. Samuel Beckett

    The great Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989

  4. Turkey-Greece Island Dispute

    How Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea.

  5. Derek Jarman

    The experimental film-maker made his first feature film 'Sebastiane' in 1976.

  6. Death of an Anarchist

    Giuseppe Pinelli was an Italian anarchist who died in police custody - but why?

  7. The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

    Brazil's Vida Alves starred in the first ever Latin American soap opera in December 1951.

  8. Cot Death

    The 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched in 1991 to prevent babies dying in their cots

  9. The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'

    Millions of Hindus were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk.

  10. Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan

    A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.

  11. Yoyes - Woman leader of ETA

    The life and tragic death of the first woman leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

  12. Fighting for Rural Women in South Africa

    Sizani Ngubane set up the Rural Women's Movement in South Africa in the 1990s

  13. Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

    Scientist Elizabeth Fisher created a new strain of mouse to help understand Down Syndrome

  14. Wangari Maathai Wins Nobel Prize

    In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

  15. Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot

    Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.

  16. Digging up the Truth

    Mercedes Doretti has spent her life uncovering mass graves around the world.

  17. The Attica Prison Riot

    One man's memories of a very public siege in a high security jail in the USA.

  18. Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

    In December 1976 gunmen tried to kill the legendary reggae singer at his home in Jamaica.

  19. The Capture of Abimael Guzman

    Tracking down Peru's public enemy number one, leader of the Maoist Shining Path rebels.

  20. Colombia's 'Lost City'

    In 1976, archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in forest

  21. The US School Bible Controversy

    How a schoolboy challenged the practice of daily Bible reading in US schools - and won.

  22. India's City of the Future: Chandigarh

    World famous architect Le Corbusier built a city to revive Indian pride after Partition.

  23. The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya

    The dissident poet spent four years in Soviet prisons and labour camps.

  24. Car Safety and Ralph Nader

    In the early 1960s there were virtually no laws covering car safety in the USA.

  25. A Black GI in China

    How did a black American soldier end up living a privileged life in communist China?

  26. The Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters

    3 sisters in the Dominican Republic were beaten to death on the orders of the dictator

  27. The Bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow

    How the Soviets hid hi-tech bugs deep inside the walls of the new US embassy in Moscow.

  28. The 1948 French Miners' Strike

    How coal miners in France went from post-war heroes to pariahs

  29. The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka

    In 1965 a Moroccan disappeared from the streets of Paris. His body has never been found.

  30. The Silk Letters Movement

    In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered plans to overthrow British rule

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