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Witness History Episodes

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    Translator at Nuremberg

    The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.

  2. White Australia Policy

    In the 1960s non-white immigrants were not welcome in Australia.

  3. The 1980 Turkey coup

    On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey.

  4. The Assassination of Ahmed Shah Massood

    Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed an Afghan anti-Taliban leader.

  5. An Azerbaijani View of the Demise of the Soviet Union

    How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.

  6. Great Fire of London

    In 1666, a fire destroyed much of the city of London. Two diarists recorded what happened.

  7. Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd

    It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.

  8. The Women of Greenham Common

    How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK

  9. The Scoop of the Century

    The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.

  10. Libya's Coup - 1969

    The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.

  11. Drop City

    The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.

  12. The Freedom Riders

    The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King

  13. Cameroon's Lake Nyos Disaster

    How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead

  14. Child evacuees from the Spanish Civil War

    How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.

  15. Woodstock Festival 1969

    A pivotal moment in American popular culture - the Woodstock festival of 1969.

  16. South African Student Sit-in Against Apartheid Injustice

    White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.

  17. Dr Spock: Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

    Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, the book that revolutionised child care.

  18. Stealing the Mona Lisa

    The theft of the Mona Lisa from the museum of the Louvre in Paris in August 1911

  19. The UN Baghdad bomb

    The bomb that destroyed the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.

  20. The Moscow Coup

    The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991

  21. The Hungarian Picnic

    The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989

  22. The Great Depression

    During the 1930s the people of the US faced widespread economic hardship

  23. The Goons

    It is 60 years since The Goon Show first hit the airwaves

  24. The Building of the Berlin Wall

    On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall

  25. Napster

    It is 10 years since the closure of the world's first music-sharing website - Napster

  26. Expulsion of the Chagos Islanders

    A Chagos Islander talks of Britain's expulsion of his people from their homeland.

  27. Wayne Gretzky

    He was a Canadian sporting superstar but in 1988 he was sold to an American team

  28. Britain's first nudist beach

    In August 1979 the seaside town of Brighton decided to open a nudist beach

  29. Exodus of Asians from Uganda

    In 1972 the dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had 90 days to leave Uganda

  30. The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

    In 1947 a Norwegian adventurer sailed across the Pacific on a wooden raft

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