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Witness History Episodes

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    Remembrance Day

    Our history programme Witness remembers the end of the First World War - Armistice Day.

  2. Stasi Jail

    In today's Witness we hear from a former East German dissident about life under communism.

  3. The Building of the Berlin Wall

    When the Berlin Wall was built by East Germany, August 1961.

  4. Miss World competition leads to deadly riots in Nigeria

    How the Miss World competition led to deadly riots in Nigeria.

  5. Florence Floods

    How a flood in Florence in 1966 put many of Europe's most precious artworks at risk.

  6. American citizens taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran

    US citizen Barry Rosen was held hostage for 444 days at the US Embassy in Tehran.

  7. The Russian Revolution: Violence in Moscow

    In 1917, a young girl watches the Russian Revolution unfold outside her window.

  8. 02/11/2009 GMT

    Witness is our new history programme. Today, how pop shook the British establishment.

  9. Solar Powered Cars

    Witness is our new history programme. Today, a race with a difference across the Outback.

  10. The Bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton

    The night that Irish bombers tried to blow up the British Government in 1984.

  11. 28/10/2009 GMT

    It is December 2001 and time to form a new government for Afghanistan post 9-11.

  12. 27/10/2009 GMT

    It is 1967 and the Shah of Iran is finally getting crowned.

  13. Vietnam War

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

  14. Spartak Moscow Football Disaster

    A crush at a football stadium is covered up by the Soviet state.

  15. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  16. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  17. Weekend listening: The History Bureau

    If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that turns out to be flawed?

  18. Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

    The epic space story of a sci-fi dream that changed spaceflight forever

  19. The young Benazir

    We take you back to the 1970s and the youth of Benazir Bhutto.

  20. The Roma Victims of the Holocaust

    In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported its Roma citizens to Transdniestria

  21. The Destruction of the Mosque at Ayodhya

    In December 1993, Hindu activists demolished a Muslim holy site.

  22. The British love of tea (from Here for The History)

    The Portuguese princess, corporate espionage and waging war for tea.

  23. Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

    Humans are returning to the Moon - hear about it on the BBC’s space podcast, 13 Minutes

  24. Obama in Indonesia

    Obama's childhood years in Indonesia

  25. Nasa's pioneering black women

    The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme

  26. James Salter, Writer and Pilot

    The acclaimed American writer died in June 2015, aged 90.

  27. Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev

    Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers stop a global catastrophe?

  28. Introducing The Bomb

    Emily’s grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could it have been stopped?

  29. How Liberia wrote off its debts

    Hoe Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.

  30. Eng26 Witness History (Wednesday 2

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

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