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Witness History Episodes

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    The First Glastonbury Festival

    We hear from farmer Michael Eavis, who began the music festival in 1970

  2. Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

    In 1978, Iran's top musicians took a stand against the Monarchy

  3. Miriam Makeba

    The story of the great South African singer who spent 30 years in exile

  4. Willie Nelson's Farm Aid

    Country music legend Willie Nelson holds the first benefit concert for American farmers

  5. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    How the Pakistani Qawali singer became an international music sensation..

  6. The Monkees

    The Monkees were the world's first 'manufactured' boy band - created especially for TV.

  7. Umm Kulthum

    Millions of Egyptians mourned the death of the legendary singer in 1975

  8. Noel Coward Plays Vegas

    The English singer, actor and playwright was invited to do a show in Las Vegas

  9. The King of Highlife

    E.T Mensah's Highlife music took Africa by storm in the 1950s

  10. Beatlemania

    In February 1964 British pop group The Beatles were met by hysterical crowds in the USA.

  11. The Heyday of Somali Music

    The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .

  12. Russia's First DJ

    Russia's first radio DJ, Seva Novgorodsev, went on air at the height of the Cold War

  13. The Auschwitz Cellist

    How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

  14. Uri Geller and the Bending Spoon

    In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.

  15. Hurricane Katrina

    In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

  16. The Guinness Book of Records

    The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

  17. The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

    A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

  18. Latinos Protest Against Vietnam

    How a Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War descended into chaos in 1970.

  19. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    On 21 Aug 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

  20. Mass Executions in Iran

    In the summer of 1988 thousands of political prisoners were suddenly executed in Iran.

  21. A Bizarre Poisoning Plot in Oregon

    A clash between a religious commune and the locals leads to the mass poisoning of a town.

  22. Charles Rennie Mackintosh

    In August 1915 the Scottish architect was arrested on suspicion of spying.

  23. Bloods and Crips

    The truce in 1992 between the two main black street gangs in Los Angeles.

  24. The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

    Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940

  25. The Dieppe Raid

    The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.

  26. The Tolpuddle Martyrs

    How six English farmworkers defied the authorities to form a trade union in 1834.

  27. Korea Divided

    In August 1945 Korea is split along the 38th parallel.

  28. Child Prisoners of the Japanese

    The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.

  29. The Inuit Children Experiment

    Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

  30. The Man Who Published Harry Potter

    In 1996 struggling author JK Rowling finds a publisher at last for wizard Harry Potter.

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