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Witness History Episodes

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    CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

    The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950

  2. Free breakfast with the Black Panthers

    The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.

  3. The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'

    Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret

  4. An Ethiopian war hero

    Ethiopia sent soldiers to fight alongside the United Nations during the Korean War

  5. Magellan and the first voyage around the world

    In 1519, the Portuguese explorer set off on the first circumnavigation of the globe.

  6. Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war

    How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.

  7. India's affirmative action controversy

    Why guaranteeing government jobs to lower caste Hindus led to weeks of student protests.

  8. The TV series Friends

    One of the most successful TV comedy shows of all time hit US screens in September 1994

  9. The coup, the president and the embassy

    How the deposed Honduran president spent months holed up in the Brazilian embassy

  10. The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia

    In 1991 Libero Grassi was killed in Sicily for publicly refusing to pay protection money.

  11. The Holocaust denial trial

    The libel case that put history itself in the dock in 2000

  12. Inside lunar astronaut quarantine

    Apollo 11's doctor tells how NASA tried to protect Earth from possible lunar alien life

  13. The first all-women peacekeeping unit

    The UN deployed its first all-female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2007.

  14. The outbreak of World War Two

    On September 1st 1939 German troops invaded Poland. Cameraman Douglas Slocombe was there.

  15. The paedophile identified by his hands

    The first conviction of a paedophile using hand analysis.

  16. Nina Simone moves to Liberia

    The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.

  17. The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis

    How thousands of unaccompanied children were sent to safety by their desperate parents

  18. Mexico's murdered women

    How young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in 1993

  19. The murder of black teenager Emmett Till

    In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi

  20. The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas

    How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military

  21. The return of the wolf

    Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.

  22. I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis

    A former member of the French resistance remembers the drama of August 1944

  23. Finding El Salvador's missing children

    The search for hundreds of children kidnapped by the Salvadoran army during the civil war

  24. The first human Cyborg

    In 1998 a transponder was implanted into the body of British scientist, Kevin Warwick.

  25. Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read

    The Dr Seuss books revolutionised reading in America in the 1950s.

  26. Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'

    How the CIA tracked down one of the world's most wanted men

  27. The warnings before 9/11

    Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent

  28. The daily disposable contact lens

    How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day

  29. The division of Kashmir

    The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

  30. The Yangtze Incident

    How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949

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