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Witness History Episodes

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    Brazil's Landless Workers Movement

    In 1980, poor rural workers occupied land owned by the rich and violent clashes followed

  2. Silenced by the Vatican

    How Brazilian priest Leonardo Boff was punished for his writing on liberation theology

  3. Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?

    During the Cold War a high-ranking Polish colonel passed Soviet secrets to the CIA

  4. The Hungarian footballer executed for love

    Sándor Szűcs was hanged for trying to escape communist Hungary with his lover

  5. Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?

    The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two

  6. Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis

    Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.

  7. Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor

    In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.

  8. Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'

    In the early 2000s, a woman known as ‘Lady Tarzan’ fought India’s so called timber mafia

  9. Ibadan Zoo

    Bob Golding turned Ibadan Zoo into one of Nigeria's biggest attractions in the 1970s

  10. Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison

    Protests after Iran's 2009 election caused one man to be interrogated for 118 days

  11. The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara

    In 1975, unarmed Moroccans faced off against gun-carrying Spanish soldiers

  12. The hunger-striking Bolivian president

    In 1984, President Zuazo went on hunger strike, in an attempt to stabilise Bolivia

  13. Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate

    How one man's secret recordings revealed one of Spain's biggest corruption scandals

  14. The first World Laughter Day

    The first World Laughter Day took place in Mumbai, India in January 1998

  15. Russian ballerina defects to the west

    The Russian ballerina who defected to the west

  16. The mystery of France's lost king

    The fate of Louis-Charles, imprisoned in 1795, was for years shrouded in rumour

  17. The world’s first lesbian couple to get married

    In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise gay marriage

  18. What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec

    In 1989, a huge solar flare ground life to a halt in Quebec

  19. The Hindenburg airship disaster

    In 1937, the Hindenburg burst into flames during mooring, killing 35 people on board.

  20. The invention of the wingsuit

    In 1999, skydiver Jari Kuosma developed the first commercial wingsuit

  21. Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone

    In 1985, news broke of a major environmental discovery: a hole in the earth’s ozone layer

  22. Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe

    In 1990, a space probe's photograph of Earth captured the enormity of space

  23. Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'

    In 1984, Ken Hom taught TV audiences to cook Chinese food for the first time

  24. The disputed history of pad Thai

    Exploring the different theories behind the creation of pad Thai

  25. Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food

    In 1994, a tomato became the world's first genetically-engineered food on sale

  26. Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit

    How the Chinese gooseberry became the kiwi and one of New Zealand’s biggest exports

  27. Inventing Nutella

    How the chocolate and hazelnut spread was created in 1946

  28. 'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

    In 1969, the singer Dafydd Iwan campaigned for official recognition of the Welsh language

  29. Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

    There was an international outcry in 2014 when three journalists were imprisoned in Egypt

  30. The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda

    In 1973, the poet and prominent communist tried to flee persecution in Chile

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