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Witness History Episodes

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    Nasa's female aquanauts

    The women who led the way in America's space programme by spending two weeks underwater

  2. The unlikely pioneers of online shopping

    How a 72-year-old grandmother started online shopping before the internet

  3. The first iPhone

    The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.

  4. The Trojan Room coffee pot

    The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot.

  5. The Homebrew computer club

    A group of Californian computer enthusiasts first began meeting to share ideas in 1975.

  6. Being a Chinese Muslim

    It has never been easy to practice a religious faith in communist China

  7. The Swedish warship restored after 300 years

    A Swedish warship, Vasa, sank in the 17th century but was raised from the seabed in 1961

  8. Avenging the Amritsar Massacre

    A former British governor of Punjab was shot in 1940 as revenge for killings in Amritsar

  9. The trembling giant

    Could the biggest living organism on earth be a colony of quaking aspen trees?

  10. Britain's first woman judge

    Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain.

  11. The AIDS Memorial Quilt

    In 1985 activists made a giant quilt to commemorate those killed by AIDS in the USA.

  12. The Cheonan sinking

    On March 26th 2010 a South Korean naval ship sank after an explosion - 48 sailors died

  13. The Saudi bombardment of Yemen

    In March 2015 Saudi Arabia and its allies began an intense aerial bombardment of Yemen

  14. Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus

    Over 50 million people are thought to have died from influenza around the world in 1918

  15. Hong Kong's abandoned children

    The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted.

  16. The Chinese cure for malaria

    How scientists in the 1970s discovered an anti-malarial drug using a traditional remedy.

  17. The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

    How NASA put an orbiting observatory into space in 1990.

  18. Red Hollywood

    Former actress Marsha Hunt remembers the anti-Communist witch-hunt of the late 1940s.

  19. The fight to make sexual harassment a crime

    The story of a landmark ruling for women's rights in the United States.

  20. The 'I Love You' computer virus

    How a virus created by a Filipino college dropout sparked global panic in May 2000

  21. Marburg virus

    A deadly new disease infected laboratory workers in a small town in West Germany in 1967.

  22. The SARS epidemic

    How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003.

  23. The polio vaccine

    Scientists in the US led by Dr Jonas Salk develop an effective vaccine against polio

  24. The Ebola virus

    The first documented outbreak of the deadly disease occurred in the 1970s in Zaire

  25. The 'Spanish' flu

    In 1918 an extremely deadly form of influenza killed millions around the world

  26. The Major and the VW Beetle

    How a British army officer saved Hitler's Volkswagen Beetle at the end of World War Two

  27. Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment

    One man's stand against the psychiatric abuse of political dissidents in the Soviet Union

  28. Strikers in saris

    How South Asian women workers won the support of the British trade unionist movement

  29. The petrol that was poisoning children

    The EU finally banned lead in petrol in 2000 - decades after the US, Canada and Japan.

  30. Womenomics in Japan

    Japan faces a demographic time-bomb. Could the answer be Womenomics?

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