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Witness History Episodes

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    The Yangtze Incident

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

  2. British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland

    In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry

  3. Criminals in the community

    How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s

  4. Under the North Pole

    In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.

  5. The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

    How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence

  6. The invasion of Kuwait

    Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990

  7. The Warsaw uprising

    On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces

  8. The anti-nuclear protesters who won

    The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.

  9. The treasures of Sutton Hoo

    A huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in southern England in 1939.

  10. The death of David Kelly

    The weapons inspector's death deepened the row over the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq

  11. Humanity's earliest ancestor

    A fossilised skull found in Chad is thought to be the earliest-known ancestor of humans

  12. When Tunisia led on women's rights

    When Tunisia introduced divorce, abortion and votes for women ahead of much of the world.

  13. The Chappaquiddick Incident

    The car accident involving US Senator Edward Kennedy which left a young woman dead

  14. LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China

    How LGBT people in China started arranging fake marriages to hide their sexuality

  15. Mamma Mia!

    The story of the hit musical Mamma Mia! from the woman who created it

  16. The Beagle 2 mission to Mars

    A failed attempt to search for signs of life on Mars

  17. Apollo 13

    The Moon mission that almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship.

  18. The Moon Landing

    In July 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.

  19. Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

    The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to be sent into space

  20. Laika, the first dog in space

    The Russian stray was the first dog to be sent into orbit around the earth

  21. Kenya's ivory inferno

    How a dramatic bonfire in Nairobi National Park highlighted the threat from poaching

  22. Cuba executes top military officers

    Four army officers were sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the Castro government

  23. The Common Cold Unit

    The remarkable UK research centre where thousands went on holiday to catch a cold

  24. China puts tampons on sale

    Women in China got access to tampons for the first time in 1985

  25. The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'

    The secret diaries of 19th-century Englishwoman Anne Lister, the 'first modern lesbian'

  26. The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal

    How a group of senior, indigenous Australian women fought to save their land.

  27. The launch of the Walkman

    The advent of music on the move in July 1979

  28. Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'

    The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, starting their four year genocidal rule.

  29. Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels

    Two German left-wing activists recall their ordeal as hostages of Nicaragua's Contras

  30. The US judge accused of sexual harassment

    How Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas was publicly accused of sexual misconduct

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