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Witness History Episodes

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    Dalai Lama leaves Tibet

    In March 1959 the Dalai Lama fled Chinese troops in Tibet. His brother went too.

  2. Invasion of Iraq

    What was it like living in Baghdad during the allied invasion of Iraq?

  3. Three Mile Island Accident

    Meltdown at the American nuclear power station in 1979

  4. Kurdish exodus

    Saddam Hussein takes his revenge on rebellious Kurds after the 1st Gulf War.

  5. Coalition Government

    British politicans aren't used to sharing power but in the 1970s they had to.

  6. Bomb disposal in Iraq

    What it's really like being a bomb-disposal man in Iraq.

  7. Sierra Leone

    The civil war in Sierra Leone left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead or mutilated.

  8. Who Shot JR?

    When JR was shot in the US TV series Dallas - it made the headlines worldwide.

  9. The UK and the Vietnam War

    Why Britain resisted America's invitations to join the Vietnam War during the 1960s.

  10. Death of Stalin

    It was 57 years ago this week that the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin died.

  11. Scott of the Antarctic

    The diaries of Captain Scott and why a failed explorer became a national hero

  12. Dot Com Bubble

    During the dot com boom Stephan Paternot made millions of dollars. Then he lost them

  13. Playboy Club

    Fifty years ago the first Playboy Club opened in Chicago - with bunnies.

  14. Siege of Wounded Knee

    In 1973 Native American Indians began a standoff against the US army at Wounded Knee

  15. Attempted coup in Spain

    In 1981 Spain had been a democracy for just 5 years, now parliament is under attack.

  16. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta

    The Yalta conference that decided the shape of post-war Europe

  17. Women's Liberation Movement Begins

    Modern British feminism began in 1970 when 500 women met for a debate in Oxford

  18. Miracle on Ice

    When the US hockey team met their Russian rivals at the 1980 Olympics, tensions were high.

  19. Japanese Internment

    During WW2 the US government decided to put many of its Japanese citizens into camps.

  20. Jamaican Bobsled Team

    At the 1988 Winter Olympics Jamaica fielded its first ever bobsled team.

  21. Zimbabwe Referendum

    Ten years ago Zimbabweans thought a vote against President Mugabe was a new beginning.

  22. Bombing of Dresden

    Witness hears from a survivor of the firebombing of Dresden.

  23. Salman Rushdie's Fatwa

    Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses enraged Muslims around the world.

  24. Charlie Wilson

    Former US Congressman Charlie Wilson, who has just died, left his mark on Afghanistan.

  25. Surviving Robben Island

    Ahmed Kathrada's time in prison alongside Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, South Africa

  26. The Rivonia Trial

    In 1964, Nelson Mandela was put on trial for treason with seven other ANC activists

  27. McCarthyism

    The McCarthy era in the US marked a low point in anti-communist paranoia and witch hunts.

  28. Witness History: The Cambridge Spies

    Louise Hildago explores the story of communist spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.

  29. Northern Ireland Hunger Strikes

    In 1981 Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland staged a series of hunger strikes.

  30. Facebook

    It's exactly six years since the birth of Facebook - now it has 350 million users.

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