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Witness History Episodes

  1. Kraftwerk

    In November 1974, West German band Kraftwerk released their seminal album Autobahn

  2. The Death of Yukio Mishima

    What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?

  3. India's Eton

    In 1935 India's Doon School opened, producing prime ministers, authors and businessmen

  4. The Death of Quentin Crisp

    The flamboyant gay author of The Naked Civil Servant died on 21 November, 1999

  5. The Nuremberg Trials

    The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials

  6. Saddam Hussein Trial

    In November 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in a Baghdad courtroom

  7. President Mitterrand's Secret Second Family

    In 1994, a French magazine revealed that President Mitterrand had a secret daughter

  8. The Murder of El Salvador's Jesuits

    The shocking killings that became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war.

  9. Botswana Diamond Discovery

    Manfred Marx discovery in the Kalahari transformed Botswana's economy after independence

  10. The Killing of Rohana Wijeweera

    The death of left-wing, Sri Lankan rebel, Rohana Wijeweera in government custody in 1989

  11. Rhodesia Declares Independence

    This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war

  12. The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

    In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes

  13. Spies in Suburbia

    A Soviet spy ring was uncovered operating from a London bungalow in 1961

  14. The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya

    In October 2006, the campaigning Russian journalist was shot outside her Moscow flat.

  15. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Hear from two East Germans who were among the first to cross on 9 November, 1989

  16. The Soweto Uprising

    In 1976, schoolchildren marched in protest at the apartheid regime in South Africa.

  17. The Disappearance of Lord Lucan

    The criminal mystery as told by the son of the murdered nanny

  18. Voting Against the War on Terror

    Only one person voted against giving the US president extra powers after 9/11: Barbara Lee

  19. Shoot

    Performance artist Chris Burden was filmed as a friend shot him in the arm.

  20. The Death of Che Guevara

    In October 1967, the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.

  21. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams

    In November 1899, Sigmund Freud published a book called The Interpretation of Dreams.

  22. Leipzig - Before the Wall Came Down

    Massive demonstrations in the East German city heralded the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  23. Jane Goodall and Chimpanzees

    In 1960 a young Englishwoman made a discovery that changed our understanding of animals

  24. British Forces in Afghanistan

    Hear from an Afghan who worked alongside UK troops in Afghanistan.

  25. The 1973 Oil Crisis

    In October 1973, an Arab oil embargo caused world oil prices to rocket

  26. The Assassination of Indira Gandhi

    Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot by her bodyguards on 31 October, 1984

  27. New York Jewel Heist

    In Oct 1964 cat-burglars carried out one of the most audacious jewel robberies ever

  28. The October War

    In 1973, the Arabs launched an attack on Israel in a war both sides claimed they'd won

  29. The Murder that Shocked Brazil

    In October 1975 the journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed by the secret police in Brazil.

  30. Turkey and the Kurds

    In 1999 the leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebel group was arrested

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