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Witness History Episodes

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    The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti

    A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia

  2. The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser

    The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades

  3. Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000

    The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history

  4. Blackwater killed my son

    How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people

  5. When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit

    Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA

  6. How Liberia wrote off its debts

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

  7. The Galileo project

    A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003

  8. The mothers of Argentina's disappeared

    The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers

  9. Tank Man

    A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989

  10. The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in

    In 1960 four young black men began a protest against racial segregation in the USA.

  11. The Mau Mau struggle against British rule

    In the 1950s rebels took up arms to rid Kenya of colonial rule

  12. Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus

    Exiled dissident Nikolai Khalezin on the origins of the protest movement in Belarus

  13. Why the US rejected universal healthcare

    After WW2 US President Harry Truman argued for healthcare for all but his plan failed.

  14. Banning alcohol in an Indian state

    Punyavathi Sunkara recalls how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995.

  15. The birth of Reddit

    In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.

  16. Haiti's cholera outbreak

    Haiti was cholera-free until UN peacekeepers brought it to the Caribbean country in 2010

  17. The Dawson's Field hijacking

    Barbara Mensch recalls how she was hijacked and held in Jordan in 1970

  18. Care in the Community

    In the 1990s Britain closed down many of its long-stay hospitals and asylums

  19. The Cape Town bombings

    In the late 1990s there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city

  20. The birth of the Sony Walkman

    The portable tape player that brought music-on-the-move to millions was launched in 1979

  21. Flying through a volcano

    How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived

  22. Inventing James Bond

    How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

  23. Who has the right to vote in America?

    The decision that quashed a key part of an electoral law designed to protect black voters

  24. St Kilda

    The remote Scottish islands whose last inhabitants were evacuated in August 1930

  25. Occupy Wall Street

    How former policeman Ray Lewis joined the anti-inequality demonstrations in New York

  26. America's first woman combat pilot

    How Jeannie Leavitt became the first woman to fly a US Air Force fighter plane in 1993.

  27. Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

    The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.

  28. The siege at Ruby Ridge

    An 11-day standoff between a fugitive and the US government ended with three people dead.

  29. The Guatemalan syphilis scandal

    How American doctors carried out secretive STD experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s

  30. The first modern asthma inhaler

    Millions of people’s lives have been saved and improved by the metered dose inhaler.

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