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Witness History Episodes

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    Makaton - the signing system that changes lives

    The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s

  2. The Guerrilla Girls

    The women who launched an anonymous poster campaign against sexism and racism in art.

  3. The church that rose from the rubble

    Reconstructing Dresden's historic baroque church.

  4. The 1945 Pan-African Congress

    How a meeting in Manchester shaped the post-war struggle against colonialism

  5. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    The Israeli PM was shot by an extremist opposed to the peace process on November 4th 1995

  6. 'I just wanted to be white'

    Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany

  7. The sex musical that wowed New York and London

    In 1969 a theatrical revue called Oh Calcutta opened. It featured male and female nudity.

  8. With the president on 9/11

    How former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card broke news of 9/11 to President Bush

  9. Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

    How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.

  10. The Watergate scandal

    The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.

  11. Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president

    The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.

  12. When JFK won the US presidency

    The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

  13. Nasa's pioneering black women

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

  14. The missing victims of apartheid

    How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule

  15. The Cutter Incident

    How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.

  16. Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'

    The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment

  17. Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

    In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.

  18. Saddam Hussein's big movie project

    Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties

  19. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote

  20. The last of the Kazakh herders

    Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s

  21. The end of the Lebanese Civil War

    On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end

  22. The launch of CNN

    1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.

  23. The Battle of Lewisham

    How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.

  24. Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain

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

  25. Fighting racism on the dancefloor

    New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978

  26. Britain's first black woman headteacher

    Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.

  27. The voyage of the Empire Windrush

    A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948

  28. The house by the lake

    The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of Germany's 20th century history

  29. Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales

    Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988

  30. The founding of Google

    In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students

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