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Witness History Episodes

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    Defending a British serial murderer

    The lawyer of serial killer Rosemary West recalls the gruesome details of the case

  2. The Anfal genocide

    Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s

  3. The Stonewall Riot

    How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

  4. Catch-22

    The story behind Joseph Heller's acclaimed, satirical anti-war novel which sold millions

  5. The fat acceptance movement

    The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969

  6. The yoga teacher and the violinist

    How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West

  7. Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star

    Sister Lotus was an unlikely online celebrity because she was famous for being ordinary.

  8. The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

    The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.

  9. Carl Gustav Jung

    One of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis died in June 1961

  10. The death of Neda Soltan

    How a young woman became a symbol of anti-government protest in Iran

  11. The first gay marriage in the USA

    One gay couple in Minneapolis had a same-sex wedding back in the 1970's

  12. How America 'lost' China

    How an American war hero was sent to stop China becoming communist and failed.

  13. Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag

    How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin

  14. The first anti-psychotic drug

    How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness

  15. The end of the war in Kosovo

    Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999

  16. The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality

    A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.

  17. Broadcasting D-Day

    How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944

  18. The Little Prince

    The mystery surrounding the death of the author of the world famous children's tale

  19. D-Day

    Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.

  20. Vikings in York

    Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s

  21. Six Degrees - the first online social network

    Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.

  22. Behind the scenes on Sesame Street

    The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made

  23. Tiananmen Square escape

    Dan Wang was the most wanted student leader after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

  24. Bokassa's massacre of the children

    How protests by young people led to Jean-Bédel Bokassa's fall from power in C.A.R

  25. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

    The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964

  26. The Acid Survivors Foundation

    The Bangladesh charity dedicated to treating the survivors of acid attacks.

  27. How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

    The story of how environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

  28. Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

    When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.

  29. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

    The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.

  30. Walking the Great Wall of China

    Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984

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