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Witness History Episodes

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    Sabra and Shatila massacre 1982

    Reflecting on the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps

  2. The collapse of Lehman Brothers

    The day that one of America's largest banks collapsed, triggering a global financial panic

  3. Pope John Paul II's UK visit in 1982

    The last time a Pope came to Britain was John Paul II's visit in 1982

  4. Star Trek

    How the sci-fi classic Star Trek was born

  5. Chile Coup

    The playwright, Ariel Dorfman, recalls the coup in Chile in September 1973.

  6. Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality

    In 1957, a government committee shocked Britain by calling for homosexuality to be legal.

  7. Child Evacuees

    Children were evacuated from Britain's towns and cities at the beginning of World War Two.

  8. A Baader Meinhof victim

    In 1977 the Baader Meinhof gang kidnapped and killed a leading German businessman.

  9. Lord Mountbatten

    Lord Mountbatten, pillar of the British establishment, was killed by the IRA in 1979

  10. Anniversary of the Beslan school siege of 2004

    Six years on from the school siege in Beslan, one schoolgirl remembers

  11. Oslo Talks

    An insight into past Middle East Peace talks - a sense of humour makes a difference.

  12. Titanic discovery

    On 1 September 1985 scientists located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor

  13. Libya Coup 1969

    In 1969, a group of Libyan army officers take power in an overnight coup

  14. Hurricane Katrina

    A New Orleans deacon describes how his community survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  15. Krakatoa volcano disaster of 1883

    How the Krakatoa volcano disaster of 1883 wreaked havoc, but also inspired scientists

  16. Women's Strike in New York

    What happened when thousands of women went on strike in New York City in 1970?

  17. Fastnet yacht race disaster

    The story of a battle to survive the deadly storm that hit the Fastnet yacht race in 1979

  18. Woodstock Festival

    How a trainee priest found his true vocation at the Woodstock music festival in 1969

  19. The Baltic chain protest

    How millions of people in the Baltic states held hands to protest against Soviet rule

  20. Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Soviet Union and its allies invade Czechoslovakia and crush the Prague Spring

  21. Coup against Gorbachev

    In 1991, a coup attempt against President Gorbachev hastened the end of the Soviet Union.

  22. The death of poet Federico Garcia Lorca

    Why was the great poet Lorca murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War?

  23. The 1953 Iran coup

    The US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953

  24. India's Partition - Part Two

    When India gained independence it was split into two new countries - India and Pakistan

  25. India's Partition - Part One

    When India gained independence it was split into two new countries, India and Pakistan

  26. The Kursk disaster

    It's exactly 10 years since the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents sea.

  27. Battle of Britain

    An RAF pilot remembers his part in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940.

  28. The invasion of Kuwait

    The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi tanks and troops in August 1990

  29. African Embassy bombings

    The simultaneous bomb attacks on two United States embassies in Africa in 1998.

  30. Hiroshima

    The dropping of the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima in the last days of World War II.

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