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Witness History Episodes

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    The Concordski Crash

    A fateful day in the race to develop the first supersonic passenger plane.

  2. Saving Orphaned African Elephants

    How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants

  3. Marcel Duchamp in New York

    Remembering a wartime surrealist exhibition put on by Marcel Duchamp.

  4. Plane spotters arrested in Greece

    In Nov 2001 a group of British tourists was arrested in Greece and charged with spying.

  5. The Stockholm Syndrome

    One of the original Stockholm hostages talks about her kidnap ordeal.

  6. The Musical Cabaret

    Director Hal Prince remembers the hit musical opening on Broadway in November 1966

  7. Smuggling Endangered Birds

    In Nov 1996 leading ornithologist Tony Silva was convicted of smuggling endangered birds.

  8. The Madagascar Palace Fire

    In 1995 one of Madagascar's most historic sites was destroyed by fire

  9. East Timor Massacre

    In November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in Dili.

  10. The Burning of the Satanic Verses

    The publication of Salman Rushdie's book outraged many Muslims around the world

  11. The James Bond Theme Tune

    In 1962 Monty Norman wrote the music for the first James Bond film, Dr No.

  12. Kurdish Singer Ahmet Kaya

    The widow of the famous folk singer recalls the night that changed her husband's life.

  13. Rolling Stone Magazine

    Writer and musician Michael Lydon recalls the birth of an iconic magazine.

  14. The First Loebner Prize

    On 8 November 1991, a competition which judged artificial intelligence was held.

  15. The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial

    In 2004 a child sex abuse trial on a remote island in the Pacific shocked the world.

  16. War Photographer, Dickey Chapelle

    Photographer Dickey Chapelle was the first woman war reporter to be killed in Vietnam

  17. Octavio Paz

    In October 1990 the Mexican poet and essayist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  18. Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

    A former communist Red Guard recalls his role in China's Cultural Revolution.

  19. A Black GI in China

    How an African American soldier captured in the Korean war, decided to settle in China

  20. Harry Houdini

    How a performance in London made the reputation of the world's greatest escape artist

  21. The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka

    In 1965 French agents helped kidnap and disappear the Moroccan dissident in Paris

  22. The Big Bang

    In 1986 London's Stock Exchange underwent one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.

  23. The Hungarian Uprising

    In October 1956 Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule.

  24. Shell Shock

    Veterans talk about their experience of 'shell shock' in recordings from the BBC archive

  25. Marvel Comics and 'The Fantastic Four'

    In 1961 a new generation of comic-book super heroes was launched in the US

  26. The Aberfan Disaster

    On 21st October 1966, tragedy struck a village in Wales when a landslide crushed a school

  27. Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain

    The story of the great French conceptualist artist Marcel Duchamp and his art

  28. The Mau Mau Rebellion

    During the 1950s in Kenya, rebels known as the Mau Mau were fighting against British rule

  29. Father Charles Coughlin - America's First Radio Priest

    How a controversial Catholic priest had millions of listeners in the 1930s.

  30. Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow

    The row over hi-tech spying in America's new diplomatic building in the USSR

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