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Witness History Episodes

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    Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

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

  2. The siege at Ruby Ridge

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

  3. The Guatemalan syphilis scandal

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

  4. The first modern asthma inhaler

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

  5. The lost King of England

    How archaeologists discovered the lost grave of King Richard III under a car park

  6. Surviving Saddam

    The memories of a young Iraqi woman who grew up in the dictator's inner social circle

  7. The invention of the modern ventilator

    How a polio epidemic in Denmark in 1952 led to the invention of the modern ventilator

  8. Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

    How Turkish campaigners forced a radical change in the law on crimes against women

  9. Beirut's Hotel War

    How the Lebanese Civil War came to Beirut's luxury hotel district in 1975.

  10. Bremen’s Elephant Statue

    How the German city addressed its colonial past by rededicating a famous monument

  11. Radar and World War Two

    How British women operated secret radar technology during World War Two

  12. The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution

    How Beate Sirota Gordon got wording on gender equality into Japan's post-war constitution

  13. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

    Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

  14. The battle of Midway

    How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific

  15. The internment of Japanese Americans

    During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps

  16. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.

  17. The death of Heinrich Himmler

    The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe

  18. Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

    The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.

  19. Adrift for 76 days

    A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

  20. Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

    How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.

  21. The writer who put Latinos centre stage

    Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida

  22. The fastest vaccine ever developed

    How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine

  23. The first safe house for Afghan women

    Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan

  24. The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

    When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back

  25. The Million Man March

    On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC

  26. The man who tried to kill Hitler

    On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk

  27. South Korea's 1980s prison camps

    A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned

  28. The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors

    How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.

  29. Returning Ethiopia's looted history

    The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005

  30. How Club Med changed holidays

    Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950

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