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Witness History Episodes

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    Fermat's Last Theorem

    Andrew Wiles on solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries

  2. Operation Barbarossa

    An eyewitness account of the launch of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union

  3. The Voyage of the Empire Windrush

    The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948

  4. Australian evacuee

    During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs

  5. Rape of Nanjing

    How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937

  6. Nureyev defects to the West

    On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union

  7. East German Uprising

    In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

  8. Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

    The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper

  9. OJ Simpson car chase

    The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994

  10. Italian internees

    When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned

  11. Mixed race marriage victory in US

    How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US

  12. Attack on the Osirak reactor

    It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq

  13. Imprisonment in Syria

    As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime

  14. World's First Environment Conference

    The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit

  15. The early days of HIV/Aids

    The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus

  16. Retreat from Dunkirk

    One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk

  17. The Massacre of Baghdad's Jews

    The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews

  18. Attack at Lod Airport

    It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv

  19. Assassination of Trujillo

    It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator

  20. Pakistan nuclear test

    It is 13 years since Pakistan first tested a nuclear weapon

  21. Amnesty at 50

    It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International

  22. Mariel Boatlift from Cuba

    Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980

  23. Chanel No. 5

    In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France

  24. Manchester United 1968

    In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup

  25. The Irish Contraceptive Train

    A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them

  26. Leopold and Loeb

    In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago

  27. Crimean Tatars

    In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army

  28. The Irish pirate Queen

    Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I

  29. The fall of Berlin

    The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945

  30. Easter Rising in Ireland

    Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.

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