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Witness History Episodes

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    The Burma uprising of 1988

    People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988

  2. The Moscow State Circus

    The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.

  3. The first Eurostar from England to France

    The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers

  4. The anthem of the Arab Spring

    How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011

  5. Libya's Arab uprising

    In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

  6. Yemen's 2011 uprising

    Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011

  7. Syria in the Arab Spring

    The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.

  8. Egypt's Facebook Girl

    How social media was used to organise against Egypt's government before the Arab Spring

  9. Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs

    Anti-Sikh violence flared in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984

  10. Kenya's pioneering publisher

    Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.

  11. The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

    The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence

  12. Hitler's beer hall putsch

    Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923

  13. The New Cross fire

    How the New Cross fire in 1981 led to The Black People’s Day of Action.

  14. Estonia's singing revolution

    Rock star Tõnis Mägi describes how Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union.

  15. Landing on Titan

    The remarkable mission to explore one of the moons of Saturn in 2005

  16. Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer

    She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.

  17. Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol

    How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers

  18. When Spain's parliament was stormed

    Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981

  19. The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster

    The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.

  20. Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

    When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work

  21. The 'strike' in space

    How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control

  22. Buddhists and death row

    How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace

  23. The oldest song in the world

    Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria

  24. 01/01/2021

    History as told by the people who were there

  25. Saving the Great Barrier Reef

    In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef

  26. Le Corbusier and Chandigarh

    The modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India

  27. The building of the Aswan Dam

    One of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970

  28. UNESCO and race and tolerance

    How UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.

  29. It's a Wonderful Life

    A former Hollywood child star remembers filming the classic Christmas movie in 1946.

  30. Satyajit Ray - India's master of film

    An actor's memories of working with the Bengali director on the classic Apu trilogy

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