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Witness History Episodes

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    Risking my life to protect Congo's forest

    How a conservationist tried to protect Congo's rainforest during the country's civil war.

  2. The book that changed the way we eat

    The book that highlighted the health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet

  3. Britain's World War Two crime wave

    How criminals from looters to con artists thrived in London during the Blitz.

  4. Explaining autism

    One scientist's ground-breaking work that revolutionised our understanding of autism

  5. The first 3D printer

    The creator of the 3D printer had no idea how revolutionary this technology might become.

  6. Kowloon Walled City

    How Hong Kong’s city within a city was torn down in 1993.

  7. The Miami riots

    After four white policemen were acquitted of killing a black man - Miami rioted in 1980

  8. Sweden's fishy submarine scare

    Could farting fish have triggered Sweden's Cold War submarine hunts?

  9. Confessions of a Prince

    How Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands broke his silence to reveal a love child

  10. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    It took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.

  11. The first 24-hour children's helpline

    When a free helpline for kids was set up it showed just how widespread child abuse was

  12. The liberation of the Channel Islands

    The only part of the British Isles to be occupied during WW2 was liberated in May 1945

  13. VE Day

    VE Day saw Londoners celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe.

  14. The Soviet occupation of Berlin

    After Germany's surrender to Allied forces in May 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin

  15. The battle for Berlin

    Eyewitness accounts of the final battle for the capital of Nazi Germany in 1945

  16. The death of Hitler

    First-hand accounts of Hitler's death from the BBC's archives

  17. The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany

    An exhibition about the German army’s role in WW2 caused a scandal in 1995.

  18. Hiroshima's trees of hope

    Trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are still growing in the Japanese city

  19. The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute

    How fishermen and conservationists battled in the species-rich waters of the archipelago

  20. The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator

    The first Middle East mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948

  21. The 1957 flu that killed a million people

    In 1957 a new strain of flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world

  22. Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia

    The transgender Indonesians who fought for their rights in the 1970s and 1980s

  23. Tennessee Williams on the BBC

    The great American playwright revealed a lot about himself in BBC interviews

  24. The Brompton Manley Ventilator

    The development of a ventilation system that was a precursor to modern ventilators.

  25. Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'

    Abdul Sattar Edhi built one of the biggest welfare charities in the world

  26. The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

    A woman who died in the US in 1940 was captured and enslaved in West Africa as a child

  27. The Deepwater Horizon disaster

    A deadly explosion on a drilling rig led to an environmental disaster in the US

  28. A space crash

    Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it.

  29. When Skylab fell to Earth

    The space station which was meant to break up and fall into the sea but instead hit land

  30. The last men on the Moon

    In 1972 the American space agency NASA carried out its final Moon mission

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