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Witness History Episodes

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    Pong

    Pong - the computer game that launched a multi-billion dollar industry.

  2. Asian Flu

    The Asian flu pandemic of 1957 cost millions of lives and spread fear around the world.

  3. Lancaster House Agreement

    It's exactly 30 years since an agreement signed in London framed the future for Zimbabwe.

  4. Enron

    Witness hears from the woman who blew the whistle about the state of Enron's finances.

  5. Ebola

    Two doctors tell how they dealt with one of the first outbreaks of Ebola fever.

  6. UN Peacekeepers

    How the first United Nations Peacekeeping Force came into being.

  7. Andes Survivor

    One man's remarkable story of survival in the Andes mountains.

  8. The Battle for Votes for Women

    The voices of the suffragettes who led the campaign for the women's vote in Britain

  9. Belsen

    On 11 December 1945 the so-called 'Beast of Belsen' was executed for war crimes.

  10. Kanchenjunga

    The climbers who stopped short of the top of one of the world's highest mountains.

  11. Lethal Injection

    We hear from a witness to the first ever execution by lethal injection in a US jail.

  12. Lucy Skeleton

    We take you to Africa and a historic discovery in the search for the origins of humanity.

  13. Montreal Protocol

    One man's part in the discovery of the impact of CFCs on the ozone layer.

  14. 1970 World Cup

    We take you back over 40 years to a football World Cup and an iconic team.

  15. Heart Transplant

    We take you back more than 40 years to the first ever heart transplant operation.

  16. Eastern Congo

    We take you back more than 10 years to the beginning of the conflict in eastern Congo.

  17. HIV history

    On World Aids Day we remember the early 1980s and the first signs of a new disease.

  18. Auschwitz Story

    The remarkable story of the man who smuggled himself in to Auschwitz.

  19. The Hajj

    We take you to Mecca and an eyewitness to the Hajj of the 1930s.

  20. Harvey Milk

    One of Harvey Milk's colleagues remembers the day he died.

  21. Paris Riots

    Four years ago the suburbs of Paris were torn apart by riots.

  22. Death of Franco

    It's the winter of 1975 and in Spain a dictator is dying.

  23. Thatcher Resigns

    Witness takes you back to the last days of a remarkable political career.

  24. A holocaust survivor meets Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials

    A holocaust survivor comes face to face with Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials.

  25. Computer Virus

    It's the early 1980s and a new kind of virus is released into the world.

  26. Jonestown

    Witness - how one man led more than 900 people to their deaths.

  27. The birth of Britain’s National Health Service - the NHS

    What happened at the beginning of Britain’s National Health Service?

  28. President Richard Nixon goes to China and meets Chairman Mao

    US President Richard Nixon meets the leader of communist china Chairman Mao in Beijing.

  29. Yasser Arafat's speech at the United Nations

    Yasser Arafat’s speech to the United Nations was a landmark for Palestinians.

  30. 1970 Cyclone

    In November 1970 Bangladesh was hit by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.

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