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Witness History Episodes

  1. Flower of Scotland

    How a 1968 song by the folk band, The Corries, became Scotland’s unofficial anthem

  2. Sri Lanka Massacre

    The massacre of 184 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army in 1990 during the country's civil war

  3. Remembering Chairman Mao

    Chinese leader Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. Sidney Rittenberg knew him well.

  4. DNA Fingerprinting

    It is 30 years since a British scientist found out how to identify people by their DNA

  5. Madame Mao

    Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. His widow Jiang Qing wanted power after his death.

  6. The Persecution of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Sect

    Pakistan declared that members of the Ahmadiyya sect were not Muslims in September 1974

  7. Myanmar Currency Chaos

    The crisis following the withdrawl of most circulating banknotes in Myanmar in 1987

  8. Surviving Auschwitz

    Kitty Hart-Moxon's story of how she survived two years in the notorious Nazi death camp

  9. The Port Arthur Massacre

    The murder of 35 people by one gunman led to sweeping changes in Australia's gun laws.

  10. The Story of Dr Zhivago

    How Boris Pasternak's great novel Dr Zhivago came to be published in the West .

  11. Biba

    A ground-breaking new boutique opened in Swinging London in September, 1964

  12. World War One in Africa

    Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa

  13. The Last Outbreak of Smallpox

    In the summer of 1978 a British woman became the last known victim of smallpox.

  14. LSD Road Trip

    Writer Ken Kesey and friends drove across America experimenting with LSD in summer 1964

  15. Jailed for Speaking his Mind in China

    Harry Wu was a young student jailed for nearly 20 years in Communist China.

  16. Bionic Heart

    How doctors fitted a man with a permanent battery-operated heart in 1994

  17. The Death of Getulio Vargas

    In 1954 the president of Brazil chose to die rather than submit to the military

  18. Freckleton Air Disaster

    A US Air Force plane crashed into an English village, killing 61 people in August 1944

  19. The Betrayal of the Kurds

    In 1975, Iran and America abandon the Iraqi Kurds in their fight against Saddam Hussein

  20. Partition

    British India was divided into two new countries - India and Pakistan - in August 1947

  21. The Crime That Shocked Argentina

    In April 2004, the murder of a young student provoked a wave of protests in Argentina.

  22. The Liberation of Paris

    French and US forces freed Paris from German occupation in August 1944

  23. Zimbabwe's Rebel Writer

    Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera died of an AIDS-related illness on 18 August 1987

  24. Carlos the Jackal

    The terrorist 'Carlos the Jackal' was arrested in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in 1994

  25. The Plot to Kill Franco

    The Scottish anarchist and the plot to kill General Franco

  26. The Wizard of Oz

    The cast and crew remember one of the most popular Hollywood musicals of all time

  27. Steve Biko

    Steve Biko led South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement before he was killed in 1977.

  28. The Supremes

    The Supremes had their first hit 'Baby Love' in August 1964, 50 years ago

  29. Marooned in Stalin's Russia

    How thousands of Polish citizens tried to flee the USSR after being freed in August 1941

  30. Internment in Northern Ireland

    In 1971 the British Army detained hundreds of suspects without trial in Northern Ireland.

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